Hi all, Is there any way I can add more columns to an existing filebacked big.matrix object. In general, I want a way to modify an existing big.matrix object, i.e., add rows/columns, rename colnames, etc. I tried the following: > library(bigmemory) > x = read.big.matrix("test.csv",header=T,type="double",shared=T,backingfile="test .backup",descriptorfile="test.desc") > x[,"v4"] = "new" Error in mmap(j, colnames(x)) : Couldn't find a match to one of the arguments. (The above functionality is presently there in usual data.frames in R.) Thanks in advance, Utkarsh ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.