On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Mathieu Drapeau wrote:
> Is it normal that it takes a very long time to generate a connection
> object on a big character vector?
Yes.
> This takes a very long time to process:
> lines <- readLines ("myBigFile.txt")
> data <- scan(textConnection(lines), sep = "\t")
>
> against this that is pretty short to process:
> data <- scan("myBigFile.txt", sep = "\t")
>
> Anyone has any clues how to efficiently do that because I need to use a
> textConnection on a big vector?
Why? There are better ways, even described on the help page!
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