[R] Handling 8GB .txt file in R?

[iliketurtles]

Thanks to all the suggestions. To the first individual that replied, I can't
do any stuff with unix or perl. All I know is R.

@KEN:
I'm using Windows 7, 64 bit.

@Steve:
Here's the readLines output.. As we can see, lines 1-3 are empty and line 5
is empty, and there's also empty elements after line 5!. 

 [1] " "                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
  [2] "                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
"
  [3] " "                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
  [4] "  PERMNO          DATE    TICKER        PERMCO             PRC          
VOL    NUMTRD        vwretd        ewretd"                                                                                                                                              
  [5] ""                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  [6] "   10000    06/01/1986                    7952          .                 
.         .     -0.000138      0.001926"                                                                                                                                              
  [7] "   10000    07/01/1986    OMFGA           7952        -2.56250         
1000         .      0.013809      0.011061"                                                                                                                                              
  [8] "   10000    08/01/1986    OMFGA           7952        -2.50000        
12800         .     -0.020744     -0.005117"                                                                                                                                              
  [9] "   10000    09/01/1986    OMFGA           7952        -2.50000         
1400         .     -0.011219     -0.011588"                                                                                                                                              
 [10] "   10000    10/01/1986    OMFGA           7952        -2.50000         
8500         .      0.000083      0.003651"                                                                                                                                              
 [11] "   10000    13/01/1986    OMFGA           7952        -2.62500         
5450         .      0.002749      0.002433"                                        

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Isaac
Research Assistant
Quantitative Finance Faculty, UTS
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