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Re: Improting large datasets into S-Plus and R

To: "John E. Cornell, Ph.D." <cornell@uthscsa.edu>, S-News <s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: Improting large datasets into S-Plus and R
From: Stephen Ban <ban@zoology.ubc.ca>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:08:35 -0700
In-reply-to: <EIEGJDLJJCGBGIKGKAIFMEKOCLAA.cornell@uthscsa.edu>
I also have large datasets (1.5-2.0 million records), and I found a weird solution. SPSS had no problems opening my datasets. If you then save them as SPSS *.sav files, S-PLUS was able to import these no problem, even though it would choke on the original raw data.

Hope you have access to SPSS :)

Stephen

At 01:10 PM 25/09/2003 -0500, John E. Cornell, Ph.D. wrote:

I have a dataset with 1.6 million records and 45 binary variables.  I want
to apply monothetic (mona) and fuzzy (fanny) clustering methods to the
datamatrix.  The original dataset was created in SAS, but I created a comma
delimited text version to import into S-Plus.  When I try to import the
dataset via the Import GUI interface, the program freezes and stops
responding.  Is there a more efficient way to import a large dataset into
S-Plus or R?

John Cornell

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