Read the help page and the Import/Export Manual on the facilities
offered by the colClasses parameter of the read.table function.
On Jun 17, 2009, at 4:59 PM, liujb wrote:
Hello,
I have a data file (.csv) that has a size of about 2.6 GB. I am not
able to
read in the whole data set because of the memory limit. I actually
only need
some columns (3 columns) of the data set, is there a way to read in
specified columns?
I am using windows.
--
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT
______________________________________________
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.
