[R] Question concerning Loading large Data Sets

[David Winsemius]

I wouldn’t have expected an message, but it does raise the question: why are you making two different copies of the same text file if you are concerned about size issues?

— 
David

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> On May 5, 2019, at 5:14 PM, Spencer Brackett <spbrackett20 using saintjosephhs.com> wrote:
> 
> Also,
> 
> In case there is any confusion... "~/Vakul's GBM code" was set up in the
> working directory (via setwd) as the folder in which the file 'mapper.txt'
> is contained... thereby making the "~/Vakul's GBM code/mapper.txt" as
> shown.
> 
> Should I perhaps reset my working directory to the file I'm trying to
> access, exclusively?
> 
> On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 7:09 PM Spencer Brackett <
> spbrackett20 using saintjosephhs.com> wrote:
> 
>> Good evening,
>> 
>> I am attempting to reproduce the following lines of code...
>> 
>> library(data.table)
>> anno = as.data.frame(fread(file = "file name", sep ="\t", header = T))
>> 
>> 
>> The following is my attempt...
>> 
>>> library(data.table)
>>> mapper <- read.delim("~/Vakul's GBM code/mapper.txt")
>>>  View(mapper)
>> ## fread() was used as datset is quite large ##
>>> GBM_meth <- fread("~/Vakul's GBM code/mapper.txt")
>>> anno = as.data.frame(fread(file = "~/Vakul's GBM code/mapper.txt", sep
>> ="\t", header = T))
>> 
>> Via View(mapper), I can view the dataset contained within the "mapper.txt"
>> file, but the >anno = as.data.frame portion does not trigger any sort of
>> 'response' on R and simply brings my cursor down to the next line, ready
>> for further implementation. Should I be getting some sort of output from R,
>> and if so what should I expect?
>> 
>> I apologize in advance for any errors in the summary of the above script
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Spencer Brackett
>> 
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