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Get Your Data into R: Import Data from SPSS, Stata, SAS, CSV or TXT (datascienceplus.com)
7 points by klo99 3076 days ago | 3 comments


2 points by aflyax 3076 days ago | link

Oh the privilege of dealing with datasets measuring KB’s (apparently) and being able to use read.csv().

For the “real-world” data, one is forced to use fread. Sometimes passing to it custom-written awk statements that filter the required rows and columns from a csv.

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1 point by IndianAstronaut 3074 days ago | link

I am a big fan of Python's "with open" for streaming through large files.

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1 point by aflyax 3056 days ago | link

You can also chunk with pandas in Python. But some unfortunates are forced to work with R (e.g., because the Python community didn’t get around creating an equivalent of Shiny).

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