the fastest way to read a text file in #rstats: gist.github.com/hadley/63539…. Can you do better? (take two, with working link)

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@hadleywickham How about: gist.github.com/timyates/b0c…

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@tim_yates thanks! added to gist.github.com/hadley/63539…. Can @romain_francois or @eddelbuettel do better?

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@hadleywickham @tim_yates @eddelbuettel might be worth trying to memory map the file. I'll have a go.
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@romain_francois @hadleywickham @tim_yates @eddelbuettel it likely will. That's what data.table::fread does.
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