sqldf for Very Large Tab Delimited Files

This is a 160 GB tab-separated .txt file. It has 9 columns and 3.25x10^9
rows.

Can R handle it?

You can process a file N lines at time like this:

con <- file("myfile.dat", "r")
while(length(Lines <- readLines(con, n = N)) > 0) {
  ... whatever...
}

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