[R] Fast way to determine number of lines in a file

[Romain Francois]

On 02/08/2010 04:16 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>
>> parser::nlines does it in C.
>
> Looks promising, but I need something that uses connections because
> I'm working with big bzipped files.
>
> Hadley

Ah... the lack of c-level api for connections again ;-)

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