R help - May 2017 - memory problem

Hi,I was unable to read a 2.4 gig file into an R object using read.table in 64
bit R environment. Please let me have your suggestions.Amit Sengupta

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Hi Amit,

Is the file gzipped or extracted?
if you read the plain text file, try to gzip it and make a read.table on the
gzipped file, the read.table can handle gzipped files at least on linux and mac
OS, not sure about windows.

cheers
Peter


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> Hi,I was unable to read a 2.4 gig file into an R object using read.table in
64 bit R environment. Please let me have your suggestions.Amit Sengupta
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