On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Francis Smart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if someone could please direct me on how to choose the > best format in order to save, open, and use data. I am currently > using datasets that are in csv format. However, they are purely > numeric and I think I should be to reduce their size substantially.
R can read and write .gz files. See gzfile(). Also, you can simply save R objects using save(). See the help for that function. Of course, there is the R import/export manual that could be helpful, as well. Sean _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
