Another option is to read it into a database and from there into R.
RSQLite has the capability of reading certain text files directly into
an SQLite database without going through R and from there one
can read it into R. You can use RSQLite to do that. Alternately this
post describes how the dev
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Yupu Liang wrote:
> Dear Rs:
>
> Hi, I am trying to read a big text file (nrows=243440, ncols=144). It
> seems the computational time of all the read methods
> (scan,readtable,read.delim) is not linear to the number of rows I
> want to read in: things became really slow once I
Dear Rs:
Hi, I am trying to read a big text file (nrows=243440, ncols=144). It
seems the computational time of all the read methods
(scan,readtable,read.delim) is not linear to the number of rows I
want to read in: things became really slow once I tried to read in
10 lines compare to 10
