[R] Big databases

[Liaw, Andy]

1. Read the R Data Import/Export manual.

2. Check the R-help archive, as this question has been asked and answered
many times.

Andy

> From: Kenneth Cabrera
> 
> Hi R users:
> 
> I am using R 2.01. over a LINUX(Scientific Linux CERN)
>  platform and I got the following problem:
> It takes too much time (more than 6 hours, because I
> stop the process) to read a
> 270MB database. I am using read.table() function.
> 
> Is there any workaround to read faster a big data base?
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Kenneth
> 
>