2008/9/22 jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why don't you make one pass through your data and encode you > characters as integers (it would appear that you only have 16 > combinations). You might also want to consider using the 'raw' object > since these only take up one byte of storage -- will reduce your > storage requirements by 4. Then store each row in a 'filehash' object > so you can quickly retrieve a row at a time and then index directly to > the byte(s) that have the information that you want.
My original response of specifying a relational database now seems somewhat comical :) Barry ______________________________________________ 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.
