[R] Reading in csv data with ff package

I've spent some time trying to wrap my head around reading in large csv files with the ff-package. I think I know how to do it, but am bumping into some problems. I've tried to recreate the issues as best as I can with a smaller example and maybe someone can help explain the problems. The

[R] Externalptr class to character class from (web) scrape

I'm hitting a wall. When I use the 'scrape' function from the package 'scrapeR' to get the pagesource from a web page, I do the following: (as an example) website.doc = parse(http://www.google.com;) When I look at it, it seems fine: website.doc[[1]] This seems to have the information I need.