[R] filehash error in the colbycol method for as.data.frame from a large object

2013-11-23 Thread andrewH
Dear Folks-- I have a 14 gig .csv file with 731 columns. I have read it into a colbycol object (which took overnight – about 16 hours) using the code below, which produced no warnings or error messages. The object, CPS62_12, is 49 gig. After the reading, summary() produced the output below and col

Re: [R] filehash for big data

2011-01-02 Thread jim holtman
Exactly how do you want to work with this data? How do you want it organized? What is the structure of the file that you want to read in? What types of analysis are you going to do? Does all the data have to be in memory at once, or can you construct your analysis to do it in pieces and the agg

[R] filehash for big data

2011-01-02 Thread michael curran
Hi all, I am trying to use the filehash library to analyze a 5M by 20 matrix with both double and string data types. After consulting a few tutorials online, it seems as though one needs to first read the data into R; then create an R object; and then assign that object a location in my com

[R] filehash does not install on FreeBSD

2010-01-21 Thread Rainer Hurling
Trying to install package 'filehash' I get the following error on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT (amd64) with R version 2.11.0 (2010-01-15 r50990): --- R CMD INSTALL filehash_2.0-1.tar.gz * installing to library '/usr/local/lib/R/library' * installing *source* package 'file

[R] filehash - multiple indices via '[' not allowed when using RDS format

2010-01-02 Thread Hao Cen
Hi, I have been using filehash for a while. It has performed very well. However, recently I found filehash gives an error when I need to do something like db[c("a", "b")] when the db is in RDS format. Does any one know a way to get around that? The code below reproduces the error thanks Jeff f

Re: [R] filehash

2008-03-17 Thread Roger D. Peng
Yes, the file will be created in the current working directory and is probably the reason for the error in 'dbInit'. This is a bit of a dumbo on my part---thanks for copying me. -roger Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I suspect you have a file permission problem, and noticed filehash has > some bug

Re: [R] filehash

2008-03-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I suspect you have a file permission problem, and noticed filehash has some bugs which would mask this. E.g. it does createDB1 <- function(dbName) { if(!hasWorkingFtell()) stop("need working 'ftell()' to use 'DB1' format") if(!file.exists(dbName)) file.create(dbName)

[R] filehash

2008-03-14 Thread Davood Tofighi
Hello, I'm using filehash on the windows XP and it has been working fine with the newest R version 2.6.2. However, on the windows vista, when I ran the same code, I got the following error: > dbCreate("simdb")#create simdb database [1] TRUE > db<-dbInit("simdb") #initiate an object of databa