[R] Loading large files in R

2008-05-02 Thread ajoyner
Hello, I'm attempting to load a ~110 MB text file with ~500,000 rows and 200 columns using read.table . R hangs and seems to give up. Can anyone tell me an efficient way to load a file of this size? Thank you! Alex -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Loading-large-files-in-R

Re: [R] Loading large files in R

2008-05-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 5/2/2008 2:13 PM, ajoyner wrote: Hello, I'm attempting to load a ~110 MB text file with ~500,000 rows and 200 columns using read.table . R hangs and seems to give up. Can anyone tell me an efficient way to load a file of this size? It will help a lot if you specify the column types (using

Re: [R] Loading large files in R

2008-05-02 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
hangs and seems to give up. Can anyone tell me an efficient way to load a file of this size? Thank you! Alex -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Loading-large-files-in-R-tp17025045p17025045.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: [R] Loading large files in R

2008-05-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
] CC: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Loading large files in R On 5/2/2008 2:13 PM, ajoyner wrote: Hello, I'm attempting to load a ~110 MB text file with ~500,000 rows and 200 columns using read.table . R hangs and seems to give up. Can anyone tell me an efficient way to load