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2006 Nov 07
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reading VERY large binary files
...rge binary file ... the total file is 4 gigs. I want to select rows out of the file, and the current procedure I run works but is prohibitively slow (takes more than a day to run and still won't complete). Is there any faster way to accomplish this? My current procedure looks like this: readHH <- function(file_name, hhid_list) { incon=file(file_name, open="rb") result=data.frame() tran=list() byte_mark=0 last_1M_mod=0 file_size=file.info(file_name)$size write.table(paste("Data pulled from", file_name, sep=" "), file="readHH_output.txt", s...