streamingRead | R Documentation |
A convenience function to read in a large file piece by piece, process it (hopefully reducing the size either by summarizing or removing extra rows or columns) and return the output
streamingRead( bigFile, n = 1e+06, FUN = function(xx) sub(",.*", "", xx), ..., vocal = FALSE )
bigFile |
a string giving the path to a file to be read in or a connection opened with "r" mode |
n |
number of lines to read per chunk |
FUN |
a function taking the unparsed lines from a chunk of the bigfile as a single argument and returning the desired output |
... |
any additional arguments to FUN |
vocal |
if TRUE cat a "." as each chunk is processed |
a list containing the results from applying func to the multiple chunks of the file
tmpFile<-tempfile() writeLines(LETTERS,tmpFile) streamingRead(tmpFile,10,head,1) writeLines(letters,tmpFile) streamingRead(tmpFile,2,paste,collapse='',vocal=TRUE) unlist(streamingRead(tmpFile,2,sample,1))
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