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2005 Aug 08
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Reading large files in R
Dear R-listers: I am trying to work with a big (262 Mb) file but apparently reach a memory limit using R on a MacOSX as well as on a unix machine. This is the script: > type=list(a=0,b=0,c=0) > tmp <- scan(file="coastal_gebco_sandS_blend.txt", what=type, sep="\t", quote="\"", dec=".", skip=1, na.strings="-99", nmax=13669628) Read 13669627 records > gebco <- data.frame(tmp) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 106793 Kb Even tmp does not seem right: > sum...