I was trying to read a large .csv file (80 colums, 400,000 rows, size of
about 200MB). I used scan(), R 2.3.1 on Windows XP. My computer is AMD 2000+
and has 512MB ram.
It sometimes freezes my PC, sometimes just shuts down R quitely.
Is there a way (option, function) to better handle large files?
Seemingly SAS can deal with it with no problem, but I just persuaded my
professor transfering to R, so it is quite disappointing.
Please help, thank you.
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