From michael.weylandt at gmail.com  Mon Jul 23 19:44:39 2012
From: michael.weylandt at gmail.com (R. Michael Weylandt)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:44:39 -0500
Subject: [Rd] large dataset - confused
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1) Move this off R-devel to R-help.

2) Read the IO manual here: http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html

3) You probably want to look at the read.table() function's help page
by typing ?read.table

Michael

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:32 PM, walcotteric <walcott3 at msu.edu> wrote:
> I'm trying to load a dataset into R, but I'm completely lost. This is
> probably due mostly to the fact that I'm a complete R newb, but it's got me
> stuck in  a research project.
> I've tried just opening the text file in WordPad and copying the data
> directly into R, but it's too big and causes the program to crash.
>
> Any suggestions or assistance? I'm kinda desperate and lost.
>
>
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[Rd] large dataset - confused
R. Michael Weylandt