Re: [R] filehash for big data

2011-01-02 Thread jim holtman
Exactly how do you want to work with this data? How do you want it organized? What is the structure of the file that you want to read in? What types of analysis are you going to do? Does all the data have to be in memory at once, or can you construct your analysis to do it in pieces and the agg

[R] filehash for big data

2011-01-02 Thread michael curran
Hi all, I am trying to use the filehash library to analyze a 5M by 20 matrix with both double and string data types. After consulting a few tutorials online, it seems as though one needs to first read the data into R; then create an R object; and then assign that object a location in my com