How to transpose it in a fast way?

On Mar 7, 2013, at 01:18 , Yao He wrote:

> Dear all:
>
> I have a big data file of 60000 columns and 60000 rows like that:
>
> AA AC AA AA .......AT
> CC CC CT CT.......TC
> ..........................
> .........................
>
> I want to transpose it and the output is a new like that
> AA CC ............
> AC CC............
> AA CT.............
> AA CT.........
> ....................
> ....................
> AT TC.............
>
> The keypoint is  I can't read it into R by read.table() because the
> data is too large,so I try that:
> c<-file("silygenotype.txt","r")
> geno_t<-list()
> repeat{
>  line<-readLines(c,n=1)
>  if (length(line)==0)break  #end of file
>  line<-unlist(strsplit(line,"\t"))
> geno_t<-cbind(geno_t,line)
> }
> write.table(geno_t,"xxx.txt")
>
> It works but it is too slow ,how to optimize it???


As others have pointed out, that's a lot of data!

You seem to have the right idea: If you read the columns line by line there is nothing to transpose. A couple of points, though:

- The cbind() is a potential performance hit since it copies the list every time around. geno_t <- vector("list", 60000) and then
geno_t[[i]] <- <etc>

- You might use scan() instead of readLines, strsplit

- Perhaps consider the data type as you seem to be reading strings with 16 possible values (I suspect that R already optimizes string storage to make this point moot, though.)

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