Thanks
On 11/16/2010 12:41 PM, Seth Falcon wrote:
> Hi Abhijit,
>
> [I've cc'd R-help to keep the discussion on the list]
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Abhijit Dasgupta
> <adasgupta@araastat.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Seth,
>>
>> I was looking for something like this too. I've a question. If
>> you're reading the data from a connection, does R start reading the
>> next chunk of data right after the previous chunk, or do we need to
>> keep track of things using "skip"
>>      
> The purpose of using a file connection is to allow R to keep its place
> in the file as it reads and not have to re-read or skip.  This is
> considerably more efficient.
>
>
>
>    

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

