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Dear All, Hope I am not bumping into a FAQ, but so far my online search has been fruitless I need to read some data file using R. I am using the (I think) standard command: data_150<-read.table("y_complete06000", header=FALSE) where y_complete06000 is a 6000 by 40 table of numbers. I am puzzled at the fact that R is taking several minutes to read this file. First I thought it may have been due to its shape, but even re-expressing and saving the matrix as a 1D array does not help. It is not a small f...