1. Read the R Data Import/Export manual. 2. Check the R-help archive, as this question has been asked and answered many times.
Andy > From: Kenneth Cabrera > > Hi R users: > > I am using R 2.01. over a LINUX(Scientific Linux CERN) > platform and I got the following problem: > It takes too much time (more than 6 hours, because I > stop the process) to read a > 270MB database. I am using read.table() function. > > Is there any workaround to read faster a big data base? > > Thank you for your help. > > Kenneth > > ______________________________________________ [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
