title: reading in large text files in r
body: <p>I want to read in a large ido file that had just under 110,000,000 rows and 8 columns. The columns are made up of 2 integer columns and 6 logical columns. The delimiter <code>"|"</code> is used in the file.  I tried using <code>read.big.matrix</code> and it took forever. I also tried <code>dumpDf</code> and it ran out of RAM. I tried <code>ff</code> which I heard was a good package and I am struggling with errors. I would like to do some analysis with this table if I can read it in some way. If anyone has any suggestions that would be great.
  Kind Regards,
  Lorcan</p>