Thanks On 11/16/2010 12:41 PM, Seth Falcon wrote: > 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. > > > >
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