Hi Abhijit, [I've cc'd R-help to keep the discussion on the list]
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Abhijit Dasgupta <adasgu...@araastat.com> wrote: > Seth, > > I was looking for something like this too. I've a question. If > you're reading the data from a connection, does R start reading the > next chunk of data right after the previous chunk, or do we need to > keep track of things using "skip" The purpose of using a file connection is to allow R to keep its place in the file as it reads and not have to re-read or skip. This is considerably more efficient. -- Seth Falcon | @sfalcon | http://userprimary.net/ ______________________________________________ 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.
