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Dear list, There is a new rwiki (http://rwiki.sciviews.org) section for 'large scale data' at http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=large_scale_data. This is a massive topic of interest to many. I could use some help filling in the content so that this can develop into a powerful resource for the r-community. I hope you like it, and I hope you are willing to help make it better. Sincerely, KeithC.

Rhelpers: I'd like to modify this RSQLite statement: rs_stations<-dbSendQuery(con_stations, "select * from stations") so that stations is actually an R variable, e.g.: stations=c("stationA","stationB") How would I modify the above statement to query from stations[[1]] (aka "stationA")? --j

Hi, I am reading a large space-delimited text file into R (41 columns and many rows) and need to do run each row's values through another R object and then write to another text file. So, far using readLines and writeLines seems to be the best bet. I've gotten the data exchange working except each row is read in as one 'chunk', meaning the row has all values between two quotes