By at least some definitions, a `large file' is one over 2Gb, so yours is hardly `huge'.
I don't know what .dat format is (or, rather, I know many different definitions of it). But your problem seems a small one for the current limits of 32-bit R for Windows, and on more capable platforms (e.g. 64-bit Unix or Linux) a tiny one. Just make sure you have lots of RAM in your computer: R can make use of up to 3Gb (and the OS will want some, too). On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Sumanta Basak wrote: > Hi R-Experts, > > I have a huge data file of size over 100MB, and this is in .dat format. Is > it possible to work with this in the current version of R in Windows-XP > machine? If not, please let me know the remedy of this. Can R handle large > dataset like this? I know SAS is compatiable for this. But i want to try it > in R. > > -- > SUMANTA BASAK. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
