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I feel completely stupid for asking this question, but I have an essential problem of getting the syntax right for synchronizing multiple files. I am trying to use rsync to synchronize files generated in one directory with our public directory our web server. We have a number of files with the extension html so I have tried the following command line: rsync *.html

...se, but I suspect the memory issues will still be present if I do that. What I'd like is a way to read in, say, a million lines at a time, do the factor conversion, then append to my existing data frame, which has columns of factors. However, something I came across while participating in the ICFP 2007 (http://www.icfpcontest.org/) using R was the strange behaviour when adding new/unknown values to a factor vector: > (a <- factor(c("I","C","I","C","F","I"))) [1] I C I C F I Levels: C F I > append(a,"P") [1] &quot...