[R] Can R work on very large of data?

[Kevin Wang]

Hi
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Hayashi Soichi - shayas wrote:

> Is there anyway I can tweak R around so that it will start processing as
> data comes and not load everthing on memory at once? The reason for this is

Have you read through R Data Import/Export?

There are several other ways, to name a few: scan() and RODBC -- I haven't
used the later though.

Cheers,

Kevin

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