Very interesting request. I also would be interested in this possibility. Cheers
2013/3/11 stat quant <[email protected]> > Hello list, > We like FREAD because it is very fast, yet sometimes files are huge and R > cannot handle that much data, some packages handle this limitation but they > do not provide a similar to fread function. > Yet sometimes only subsets of a file is really needed, subsets that could > fit into RAM. > > So what about adding a grep option to fread that would allow to load only > lines that matches a regular expression? > > I'll add a request if you think the idea is worth implementing. > > Cheers > > > _______________________________________________ > datatable-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help > -- *************************************************************** *Michele De Meo, Ph.D* *Statistical and data mining solutions http://micheledemeo.blogspot.com/ skype: demeo.michele* * *
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