On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:16:56AM -0500, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > Brian - I really appreciate your work on this, and the data. The wise > use of read.table that you mentioned should be fine for almost > everything I do. There may be other users who need to read larger > datasets for which memory usage is an issue. They can speak for > themselves though.
Thanks as always for the near constant improvements to R. One possible improvement would be more explicit examples, maybe in a \dontrun environment, showing some possible data file format and how arguments like colClasses can help increase performance over the naive use (that I am still using almost exclusively). As Achim would say: "Seasonal Greetings" ;-) Dirk -- If you don't go with R now, you will someday. -- David Kane on r-sig-finance, 30 Nov 2004 ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
