On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:08 AM, HC <hca...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> This is a 160 GB tab-separated .txt file. It has 9 columns and 3.25x10^9
> rows.
>
> Can R handle it?
>
You can process a file N lines at time like this:
con <- file("myfile.dat", "r")
while(length(Lines <- readLines(con, n = N)) > 0) {
... whatever...
}
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