I've just recently started using R and have a very basic question.  Sorry all, I've searched the postings and couldn't find the answer.  I'm trying to read a very large ascii file  1,461,363 rows(data points) x 200 columns(time points) for a few hours now and R seems to be 'frozen'.  I'm wondering if there are file size limits or if this is just a really large file and it's just going to be very slow.  I believe my read.table syntax is correct - I had everything working just fine with a small subject of this data (only 20 rows x 200 columns).  My data is stored and processes running on the University's High Performance Computing system (SUN machines) and believe it's using 4 CPUs.  Any ideas?
 
Thanks for the help,
chris  
 
 
 


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