[R] read.table freezes the computer

[Ben Bolker]

Jie <jimmycloud <at> gmail.com> writes:

[snip]

> I have a txt file to read into R. The size of it is about 500MB.
> This txt file is produced by calling  write.table(M, file =
> "xxx.txt"), where M is a large matrix
> After running MM = read.table("xxx.txt"), the R gui keeps a cpu
> core/thread fully occupied forever.
> 64 bit R with 16GB RAM on Win7 64, i5 cpu should be capable.=

  [snip]

 Take a look at 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1727772/
quickly-reading-very-large-tables-as-dataframes-in-r/

  (URL broken to make gmane happy)