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Renger van Nieuwkoop <ren...@vannieuwkoop.ch> wrote: >Hi >I have 6 rather big data sets (between 400000 and 800000 lines) on >transport data (times, distances and travelers between nodes). They all >have a common index (start-end nodes). >I want to aggregate this data, but for that I have to merge them. >I tried to use "merge" with the result that R (3.0.1) crashes (Windows >8 machine, 16 Gb Ram). >Then I tried the join from the data.table package. Here I got the >message that 2^34 is too big (no idea why it is 2^34 as it is a left >join). >Then I decided to do a loop using the tables and assigning them, which >takes a very, very long time (still running at the moment). > >Here is the code: >for (i in 1:length(dataP$Start)){ > c<-dataP$Start[i] > d<-dataP$End[i] > dataP[J(c,d)]$OEV.T<-ttoevP[J(c,d)]$OEV.T >} > >dataP has 800'000 lines and ttoevP has about 500'000 lines. > >Any hints to speed up this process are welcome. > >Renger >_________________________________________ >Centre of Economic Research (CER-ETH) >Z�richbergstrasse 18 (ZUE) >CH - 8032 Z�rich >+41 44 632 02 63 >mailto: reng...@etzh.ch<mailto:reng...@etzh.ch> >blog.modelworks.ch > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.