Hello, I tried for several times to import data from text-files, tab-separated csv's. The import is not the problem, but the system time. On the Darwin-version, the used cpu-time is about 10 times higher than on the carbon version. on both versions I called read.delim("file.txt") because I am moving from Carbon to Darwin and I often import text-files, I hope to et a ssolution of this task. Thanks for suggestions Meinhard ploner -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._