[R] Processing 10^8 rows and 1^3 columns

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 05:36:44 CEST 2008


The sqldf package makes it easy to use DBI, RSQLite and sqlite
to read a large file directly to an sqlite database without going through
R and then read all or a portion of it into R using an arbitrary SQL
statement.  See example 6 on the home page: http://sqldf.googlecode.com


On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Daren Tan <daren76 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> With smaller tab-limited files, I could load them using read.table and the likes. Now I have a gigantic 10^8 rows and 1^3 columns tab-limited file for processsing, please throw some ideas how to handle it.
>
> Thanks
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