Jie <jimmycloud <at> gmail.com> writes: [snip]
> I have a txt file to read into R. The size of it is about 500MB. > This txt file is produced by calling write.table(M, file = > "xxx.txt"), where M is a large matrix > After running MM = read.table("xxx.txt"), the R gui keeps a cpu > core/thread fully occupied forever. > 64 bit R with 16GB RAM on Win7 64, i5 cpu should be capable.= [snip] Take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1727772/ quickly-reading-very-large-tables-as-dataframes-in-r/ (URL broken to make gmane happy) ______________________________________________ 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.