On 2/28/08, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The sqldf package can read a subset of rows and columns (actually any > sql operation) > from a file larger than R can otherwise handle. It will automatically > set up a temporary > SQLite database for you, load the file into the database without going > through R and > extract just the data you want into R and then automatically delete > the database. All this > can be done in 2 lines of code.
Is it realistic to use this approach for datasets as big as 30-40 GB? Liviu ______________________________________________ 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.