Re: [R] Loading large .pxt and .asc datasets causes issues.

2016-02-24 Thread Torvon
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Re: [R] Loading large .pxt and .asc datasets causes issues.

2016-02-23 Thread Anthony Damico
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Re: [R] Loading large .pxt and .asc datasets causes issues.

2016-02-23 Thread Federman, Douglas
-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Torvon Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 2:13 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Loading large .pxt and .asc datasets causes issues. Hi, I want to load a dataset into R. This dataset is available in two formats: .XPT and .ASC. The datas

Re: [R] Loading large .pxt and .asc datasets causes issues.

2016-02-23 Thread Jan van der Laan
First, the file does contain 302 columns; the variable layout (http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/annual_data/2006/varlayout_table_06.htm) contains 302 columns. So, reading the SASS file probably works correctly. Second, the read.asc function you use is for reading geographic raster files, not fixed wid

[R] Loading large .pxt and .asc datasets causes issues.

2016-02-23 Thread Torvon
Hi, I want to load a dataset into R. This dataset is available in two formats: .XPT and .ASC. The dataset is available at http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/annual_data/annual_2006.htm. They are about 40mb zipped, and about 500mb unzipped. I can get the .xpt data to load, using: > library(hmisc) > data <