Re: [R] Very slow read.table on Linux, compared to Win2000 [Broad cast]

2006-06-29 Thread Alberto Murta
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 15:45, Patrick Connolly wrote: > On Wed, 28-Jun-2006 at 04:43PM -0700, Alberto Murta wrote: > |> I have a pentium 4 pc with 256 MB of RAM, so I made a text file, tab > |> > |> separated, with column names and 15000 x 483 integers: > |> > system("ls -l teste.txt") > |> > |>

Re: [R] Very slow read.table on Linux, compared to Win2000 [Broad cast]

2006-06-29 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Wed, 28-Jun-2006 at 04:43PM -0700, Alberto Murta wrote: |> I have a pentium 4 pc with 256 MB of RAM, so I made a text file, tab |> separated, with column names and 15000 x 483 integers: |> |> > system("ls -l teste.txt") |> -rw-r--r-- 1 amurta amurta 16998702 Jun 28 16:08 teste.txt |> |> t

Re: [R] Very slow read.table on Linux, compared to Win2000 [Broad cast]

2006-06-28 Thread Alberto Murta
I have a pentium 4 pc with 256 MB of RAM, so I made a text file, tab separated, with column names and 15000 x 483 integers: > system("ls -l teste.txt") -rw-r--r-- 1 amurta amurta 16998702 Jun 28 16:08 teste.txt the time it took to import it was around 15 secs: > system.time(teste <- read.del

Re: [R] Very slow read.table on Linux, compared to Win2000 [Broad cast]

2006-06-28 Thread Liaw, Andy
From: Peter Dalgaard > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Dear all, > > > > I read.table a 17MB tabulator separated table with 483 > > variables(mostly numeric) and 15000 observations into R. > This takes a > > few seconds with R 2.3.1 on windows 2000, but it takes > several minutes > > on