Have you think of build a database then then let R read it thru that db instead of your desktop?
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Kevin Hao <rfans4ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all scientists, > > Recently, I am dealing with big data ( >3G txt or csv format ) in my > desktop (windows 7 - 64 bit version), but I can not read them faster, > thought I search from internet. [define colClasses for read.table, cobycol > and limma packages I have use them, but it is not so fast]. > > Could you share your methods to read big data to R faster? > > Though this is an odd question, but we need it really. > > Any suggest appreciates. > > Thank you very much. > > > kevin > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.