problem

Philipp Pagel <p.pagel at wzw.tum.de> wrote in
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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:32:19PM +0100, Erika Frigo wrote:

My file has not only more than a million values, but more than a
million rows and moreless 30 columns (it is a productive dataset
for cows), infact with read.table i'm not able to import it.
It is an xls file.

There is something very wrong here. Even the most recent versions of
Excel cannot handle files with a million rows. Heck, they can't even
handle files with one-tenth than number. In earlier versions the limit
was on the order of 36K.