[R] sqldf for Very Large Tab Delimited Files

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 13:37:02 CET 2012


On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:03 AM, HC <hcatbr at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Thank you for indicating that SQLite may not handle a file as big as 160 GB.
>
> Would you know of any utility for *physically splitting *the 160 GB text
> file into pieces. And if one can control the splitting at the  end of a
> record.
>

If they are csv files or similar data files then you could use R or
any scripting language to do that.

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