[datatable-help] fread suggestion

[MICHELE DE MEO]

Very interesting request. I also would be interested in this possibility.

Cheers


2013/3/11 stat quant <statquant at outlook.com>

> Hello list,
> We like FREAD because it is very fast, yet sometimes files are huge and R
> cannot handle that much data, some packages handle this limitation but they
> do not provide a similar to fread function.
> Yet sometimes only subsets of a file is really needed, subsets that could
> fit into RAM.
>
> So what about adding a grep option to fread that would allow to load only
> lines that matches a regular expression?
>
> I'll add a request if you think the idea is worth implementing.
>
> Cheers
>
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