title: Efficient way to read file larger than memory in R
body: <p>This reference <a href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/efficiency-of-importing-large-csv-files-in-r/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.r-bloggers.com/efficiency-of-importing-large-csv-files-in-r/</a> compares reading a file using fread versus ffdf. I am currently trying to read a csv file that is abour 60GB while my memory available on RAM is 16GB. It takes about 2 hours to do so. Would you recommend a faster way?</p>