[R] Can R work on very large of data?

2004-07-21 Thread Hayashi Soichi - shayas
Hello.. I am pretty new for R, but if I understand it correctly, when R read data by doing something like d - read.table(/dev/stdin), it read entire data first then start processing.. Is there anyway I can tweak R around so that it will start processing as data comes and not load everthing

Re: [R] Can R work on very large of data?

2004-07-21 Thread Kevin Wang
Hi On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Hayashi Soichi - shayas wrote: Is there anyway I can tweak R around so that it will start processing as data comes and not load everthing on memory at once? The reason for this is Have you read through R Data Import/Export? There are several other ways, to name a few:

Re: [R] Can R work on very large of data?

2004-07-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:05:18 -0500, Hayashi Soichi - shayas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Is there anyway I can tweak R around so that it will start processing as data comes and not load everthing on memory at once? See the ?connections help topic. You can open a file, and then read lines from it