[R] How to read large file

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Example 6e of
http://code.google.com/p/sqldf/#Example_6._File_Input

shows how to use the sqldf package to read a sample of rows
from a file without reading the file itself into R.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Dongyan Song <yzhskdls at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I want to read a 1.2 G file with 136,736,218 numbers with scan function, and
> then want make a histogram with those numbers, but it showed Error: cannot
> allocate vector of size 2.0 Gb. How can I import the file then?
>
> The version I used:
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
> i686-pc-linux-gnu
>> mem.limits()
> nsize vsize
>   NA    NA
> and the computer I use has 4G memory in total.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Dongyan Song
>
>
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