[R] Reading in 9.6GB .DAT File - OK with 64-bit R?

Jeff Newmiller
2012-03-08T23:06:45Z

My opinion is that you should be spending your effort on setting up a SQL engine
and importing it there. If you have 32GB of RAM your current direction might
work, but working with sampled data rather than population data seems pretty
typical for statistical analysis.
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RHelpPlease <rrumple at trghcsolutions.com> wrote:

>Hi there,
>I wish to read a 9.6GB .DAT file into R (64-bit R on 64-bit Windows
>machine)
>- to then delete a substantial number of rows & then convert to a .csv
>file.
>Upon the first attempt the computer crashed (at some point last night).
>
>I'm rerunning this now & am closely monitoring Processor/CPU/Memory.
>
>Apart from this crash being a computer issue alone (possibly), is R
>equipped
>to handle this much data?  I read up on the FAQs page that 64-bit R can
>handle larger data sets than 32-bit.
>
>I'm using the read.fwf function to read in the data.  I don't have
>access to
>a database program (SQL, for instance).
>
>Advice is most appreciated!
>
>
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