There are hints in the R Data Import/Export Manual. Just checking: you _have_ read it?
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Igor Rivin wrote: > > I have a 100Mb comma-separated file, and R takes several minutes to read it > (via read.table()). This is R 1.9.0 on a linux box with a couple gigabytes of > RAM. I am conjecturing that R is gc-ing, so maybe there is some command-line > arg I can give it to convince it that I have a lot of space, or?! -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
