[R] Limit

Jeff Newmiller
2024-11-09T01:13:16Z

Can you tell us what is wrong with the "chunked" package which comes
up when you Google "r read large file in chunks"?

On November 8, 2024 4:58:18 PM PST, Val <valkremk at gmail.com>
wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I am reading data file ( > 1B rows) and do some date formatting like
>      dat=fread(mydatafile)
>     dat$date1 <- as.Date(ymd(dat$date1))
>
>However, I am getting an error message saying that
>    Error: cons memory exhausted (limit reached?)
>
>The  script was working  when the number rows were  around 650M.
>
>Is there another way to  handle  a big data set in R?
>
>
>Thank you.
>
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