[R-sig-Geo] Handling many large ASCII files and make predictions based on valuelocations

Daniel Nüst daniel.nuest at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 19:52:26 CET 2010


Hello Tobias!

2010/11/10 Tobias Reiners <Tobias.Reiners at bio.uni-giessen.de>:
> I will take weeks to handle that.
>
> What is the best way to handle my Grids and  get fast access to all values.

Independent from any algorithmic optimizations, did you check out the
existing packages for handling large data sets? For example bigmemory
or ff.

I wrote a little paper about that a while back for a seminar, maybe it
can give you a start in that direction:
http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/~d_nues01/pub/bredel-nuest_handling-large-image-data-in-R.pdf

/Daniel



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