Hi Allie,
When you are working with the ff package, the counterpart of a data.frame is
called an ffdf (ff data frame). It can handle the types you are talking
about - factor, integer but characters will be stored as factors. So this
means that your data types do not have to be of 1 specific type.
Good luck in trying out the package.
Jan
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