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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Marc Mamin wrote: > hi, > > > I'd like to extract data from very large files (ca 1-2 Mio lines), > and I already know which lines of these files I need. > > Is there a way to do it without filling the memory with the whole file > content? Yes, several, and it has been discussed on this list on Wednesday, in a thread entitled `Performing Analysis on Subset of External data' Please look in the archives. > The lines I need are randomly distributed within the files. [irrelevant other message discarded here.] -- 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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
