I am using an example posted in this help forum to work with a file. the head of the file looks like: 988887 2007-03-05 2007-06-01 90 3 5.450 205500.00 999.00 999.000 0.000 0 0 988887 2007-03-06 2007-06-01 90 3 5.450 205500.00 999.00 999.000 0.000 1 0 988887 2007-03-07 2007-06-01 90 3 5.450 205500.00 999.00 999.000 -0.100 2 0 988887 2007-03-08 2007-06-01 90 3 5.450 205500.00 999.00 999.000 -0.100 3 0 988887 2007-03-09 2007-06-01 90 3 5.450 205500.00 999.00 999.000 -0.100 4 0 988887 2007-03-12 2007-06-01 90 3 5.450 205500.00 999.00 999.000 -0.100 7 0 988887 2007-03-13 2007-06-01 90 3 5.450 205500.00 999.00 999.000 -0.100 8 0 988887 2007-03-14 2007-06-01 90 3 5.450 205500.00 999.00 999.000 -0.100 9 0 988887 2007-03-15 2007-06-01 90 3 5.450 205500.00 999.00 999.000 -0.100 10 0 988887 2007-03-16 2007-06-01 90 3 5.450 205500.00 999.00 999.000 -0.100 11 0
the code is: make.data <- function (filename, chunksize, ...) { conn<-NULL; function (reset=FALSE) { if (reset) { if (!is.null(conn)) { close(conn); }; conn <<- file (description=filename, open="r"); } else { rval <- read.table (conn, nrows=chunksize,sep=' ', skip=0, header=FALSE,...); if (nrow(rval)==0) { close(conn); conn<<-NULL; rval<-NULL; } else { rval$relage <- rval$loctime/rval$term; }; return(rval); } } }; a <- make.data ( filename = "G:/sqldata/newf4.csv", chunksize = 100000, colClasses = list ("NULL", "Date","Date", "integer", "factor",rep("numeric",5),rep("integer",2)), col.names = c("id","dt", "promdt","term", "termfac", "commintr","commbal","issuebal","intr","ri","loctime","resp") ) library(biglm); bigglm (formula = resp ~ poly(relage,2,raw=TRUE)+termfac+ri , data = a, family = binomial(link='logit')); ### output: > bigglm (formula = resp ~ poly(relage,2,raw=TRUE)+termfac+ri , + data = a, family = binomial(link='logit')); Error in is(object, Class) : trying to get slot "className" from an object of a basic class ("list") with no slots > ### the following can create a df, so the problem is not loading the data (maybe :-) a <- read.table ( "G:/sqldata/newf4.csv", nrows= 500000, sep=' ',head=F, colClasses = c("NULL", "Date","Date","integer","factor",rep("numeric",5),rep("integer",2)), col.names = ("id","dt", "promdt","term", "termfac", "commintr","commbal","issuebal","intr","ri","loctime","resp") ) Thanks everybody. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/unable-to-get-bigglm-working-ATTN-Thomas-Lumley-tp2276524p2276524.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.