Re: [R] Loading only particular columns from csv file...

2008-01-17 Thread Marko Milicic
Thank you very much... That was helpful.. On Jan 15, 2008 12:58 AM, Charles C. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Marko Milicic wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I'm trying to process HUGE datasets with R. It's very fast, but I would > like > > to optimize it a bit more, by focu

Re: [R] Loading only particular columns from csv file...

2008-01-14 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Marko Milicic wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to process HUGE datasets with R. It's very fast, but I would like > to optimize it a bit more, by focusing one one column at time. say file > is 1GB big and has 100 columns. In order to prevent "out of memory" > problems.

Re: [R] Loading only particular columns from csv file...

2008-01-14 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
See the colClasses= argument of read.table where you can use "NULL". On Jan 14, 2008 6:02 PM, Marko Milicic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to process HUGE datasets with R. It's very fast, but I would like > to optimize it a bit more, by focusing one one column at time. s

[R] Loading only particular columns from csv file...

2008-01-14 Thread Marko Milicic
Dear all, I'm trying to process HUGE datasets with R. It's very fast, but I would like to optimize it a bit more, by focusing one one column at time. say file is 1GB big and has 100 columns. In order to prevent "out of memory" problems I need to load one column at the time the only