Just an idea: Two things that can slow down save()/load() is if you save() in ASCII format or a compressed binary format. If this is your case for MYFILE, try to resave in a non-compressed binary format. See ?save for details.
/HB On 3/1/07, ramzi abboud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is R file IO slow in general or am I missing > something? It takes me 5 minutes to do a load(MYFILE) > where MYFILE is a 27 MB Rdata file. Is there any way > to speed this up? > > The one idea I have is having R call a C or Perl > routine, reading the file in that language, converting > the data in to R objects, then sending them back into > R. This is more work that I want to do, however, in > loading Rdata files. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. > Ramzi Aboud > University of Rochester > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Need Mail bonding? > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
