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I have big .csv data file. I'm trying to read it into R by read.csv(), but it is taking too much time to read it. Is there any more efficient method to read it?

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    `data.table::fread`. Also see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7327851/read-csv-is-extremely-slow-in-reading-csv-files-with-large-numbers-of-columns ; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1727772/quickly-reading-very-large-tables-as-dataframes-in-r – Ben Bolker Jan 19 '14 at 18:22
  • (note that just about any answer that applies to `read.table()` will also be relevant to `read.csv()`) – Ben Bolker Jan 19 '14 at 18:23
  • ... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18295819/how-can-i-read-a-csv-more-quickly-in-r?rq=1 ... – Ben Bolker Jan 19 '14 at 18:23
  • [some benchmarks](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1727772/quickly-reading-very-large-tables-as-dataframes-in-r) – marbel Jan 19 '14 at 18:25

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