take a look at ff package
On Jan 19, 2013 7:04 AM, "gaurav singh" <gauravonline20@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am a little new to R and the first problem I am facing is the dilemma
> whether R is suitable for files of size 2 GB's and slightly more then 2
> Million rows. When I try importing the data using read.table, it seems to
> take forever and I have to cancel the command. Are there any special
> techniques or methods which i can use or some tricks of the game that I
> should keep in mind in order to be able to do data analysis on such large
> files using R?
>
> --
> Regards
> Gaurav Singh
>
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