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abannin on June 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What are the best tools for analyzing larg...

R is going to give you some headaches as it relies heavily on the local machine's memory. Using RStudio on a beefed up AWS instance might help make calculation time a bit more palatable.

pvaldes on June 19, 2015 [–]

I totally agree, but If you want to use R consider also this:

install.packages("LaF")

Package for fast access to Large ASCII Files. Can be used with big files that don't fit in the available memory.

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