> Are there any tricks or wise suggestions on how to import
> huge comma separated files into R? We have used the ordinary
> "read syntax" but it takes forever....
One potential time- and memory saver is to specify the class of each column
using colClasses in read.table.
For a large data set (800 000 rows) on Windows I also found it quicker and more
reliable to import the data into a MySQL database and then use ODBC to read
the data into R than to use read.table on the raw data - but that was in part
because I hada bit of trouble with the file encoding and MySQL/ODBC sidestepped
the issue.
S Ellison
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