[R] big data?

[Spencer Graves]

       What tools do you like for working with tab delimited text files 
up to 1.5 GB (under Windows 7 with 8 GB RAM)?


       Standard tools for smaller data sometimes grab all the available 
RAM, after which CPU usage drops to 3% ;-)


       The "bigmemory" project won the 2010 John Chambers Award but "is 
not available (for R version 3.1.0)".


       findFn("big data", 999) downloaded 961 links in 437 packages. 
That contains tools for data PostgreSQL and other formats, but I 
couldn't find anything for large tab delimited text files.


       Absent a better idea, I plan to write a function getField to 
extract a specific field from the data, then use that to split the data 
into 4 smaller files, which I think should be small enough that I can do 
what I want.


       Thanks,
       Spencer