plitting-input-datasets"></a>
</h2>
<p>For very large datasets, on the order of millions of records or more,
cleaning data can take several hours or more. When running this kind of
job, the risk of failures due to external factors such as power outages
increases. The current structure of <code>growthcleanr</code> does not
checkpoint results as progress is made, so if a job has to run overnight
and fails in the middle, a researcher would likely need to start over
from scratch.</p>
<p>Because <code>growthclea