How to deal with big JSON file in R? <p>I have a JSON file sizing in 500mb, and need to process it in R using fromJSON.</p> <p>I've tried bigmemory packages but still failed. Either crashed or reached the memory limits.</p> <p>Some code I had used like these</p> <pre><code>raw&lt;- big.matrix(unlist(fromJSON("data.json")), ncol=24, type='integer', init=2, backingfile='data.bin') </code></pre> <p>other information Win 8 64bit, memory of 6GB, R version 3.1.3</p> <p>here are some lines of the JSON file</p> <pre><code>["UPGRADE(ONLINE)", "20150223", "5693", "000000", "FR", "fr-fr", "STARADDICT II Plus", "4.0.4", 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0] </code></pre>