[R] sqldf for Very Large Tab Delimited Files

Steve Lianoglou mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 21:15:10 CET 2012


Hi,

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:12 PM, HC <hcatbr at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> The readLines command is working fine and I am able to read 10^6 lines in
> one go and write them using the write.table command.
>
> Does this readLines command using a block concept to optimize or goes line
> by line?
>
> Steve has mentioned about *nix and split commands. Would there be any speed
> benefit as compared to readLines?

It's easy to test, right? Just give it a shot and see ...

-steve

-- 
Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
 | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
 | Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact



More information about the R-help mailing list