Hi all,

I'm trying to read a 1220 * 20000 table in R but I'm having lot of problems. Basically 
what it happens is that R.bin starts eating all my memory until it gets about 90%. At 
that point it locks itself in a  uninterruptible sleep status (at least that's what 
top says) where it just sits there barely using the cpu at all but keeping its tons of 
memory. I've tried with read.table and scan but none of them did the trick. I've also 
tried some orrible hack like reading one line a time and gradually combining 
everything in a matrix using rbind... nope! It seems I can read up to 500 lines in a 
*decent* time but nothing more. The machine is a 3 GHz P4 with HT and 512 MB RAM 
running R-1.8.1. Will I have to write a little a C program myself to handle this thing 
or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for your help,

fede

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