Hi, On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:12 PM, HC <hca...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > Thank you. > > The readLines command is working fine and I am able to read 10^6 lines in > one go and write them using the write.table command. > > Does this readLines command using a block concept to optimize or goes line > by line? > > Steve has mentioned about *nix and split commands. Would there be any speed > benefit as compared to readLines?
It's easy to test, right? Just give it a shot and see ... -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact ______________________________________________ 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.