gyadav at ccilindia.co.in
2006-Oct-28 03:36 UTC
[Rd] ALARM!!!! Re: [R] regarding large csv file import
hi Jim, if i partition the file, then for further operation like merging the partitioned files and after that doing some analysis on whole data set would again require the same amount of memory. If i am not able to do or if i am not having memory then i feel there should be serious thinking over the issue of memory handling. hence i am also copying this to r-devel list and i would also would like to contribute and write code for memory handling issue. i would like to address this request to the great coders of R that software should be able to run in any amount of memory (except some minimum threshold...bingo). thus i would invite all the great coders to please address this issue and if in any ways i can be helpfull then i am right here. thanks with regards -gaurav "jim holtman" <jholtman@gmail.com> 27-10-06 09:09 PM To "gyadav@ccilindia.co.in" <gyadav@ccilindia.co.in> cc Subject Re: [R] regarding large csv file import Is the file only numeric, or does it also contain characters? You will get better performance by either using 'scan' , or specifying what the type of each column is with 'colClasses' so that read.csv does not have to guess at the types. You will probably need more memory depending on the type of data. If I assume that it is numeric and that it takes about 6 characters to specify a number, then you have approximately 45M numbers in the file and this will take up 362MB for a single object. You should have at least 3X the size of the largest object to do any processing since copies will have to be made. I would suggest partitioning the file and processing in parts. You can also put it in a database and 'sample' the rows that you want to process. On 10/27/06, gyadav@ccilindia.co.in <gyadav@ccilindia.co.in> wrote: hi All, i have a .csv of size 272 MB and a RAM of 512MB and working on windows XP. I am not able to import the csv file. R hangs means it stops responding even SciViews hangs. i am using read.csv(FILENAME,sep=",",header=TRUE). Is there any way to import it. i have tried archives already but i was not able to sense much. thanks in advance Sayonara With Smile & With Warm Regards :-) G a u r a v Y a d a v Assistant Manager, Economic Research & Surveillance Department, Clearing Corporation Of India Limited. Address: 5th, 6th, 7th Floor, Trade Wing 'C', Kamala City, S.B. Marg, Mumbai - 400 013 Telephone(Office): - +91 022 6663 9398 , Mobile(Personal) (0)9821286118 Email(Office) :- gyadav@ccilindia.co.in , Email(Personal) :- emailtogauravyadav@gmail.com ============================================================================================ DISCLAIMER AND CONFIDENTIALITY CAUTION:\ \ This message and ...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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 you are trying to solve? ===========================================================================================DISCLAIMER AND CONFIDENTIALITY CAUTION:\ \ This message and ...{{dropped}}