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HTH,
Chuck
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, zerfetzen wrote:
Hi,
I'm sure that a large fixed width file, such as 300 million rows and 1,000
columns, is too large for R to handle on a PC, but are there ways to deal
with it?
For example, is there a way to combine some sampling method with read.fwf so
that you can read in a sample of 100,000 records, for example?
Something like this may make analysis possible.
Once analyzed, is there a way to, say, read in only x rows at a time, save
and score each subset separately, and finally append them back together?
I haven't seen any information on this, if it is possible. Thank you for
reading, and sorry if the information was easily available and I simply
didn't find it.
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