Exactly what have you tried and what did not work? I downloaded the '.asc' (text) version of the data and it appears to be fixed format with 1294 characters per line; there are about 414K lines of data in the file. How much of the data do you need to extract? You can read in a portion of the file at a time and then extract just the fields that you need for processing. If it is not too many fields, this should be a reasonable sized object.
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:58 PM, chloe yoon <yoon.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > I am trying to do exploratory factor analysis with BRFSS dataset ( > http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/technical_infodata/surveydata/2008.htm) for a > couple of days, but I was not able to do that and got frustrated. Can > anybody help me with step by step guide? BRFSS dataset provides ASCII or SAS > format. > Thank you. > > chloe > > [[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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.
