How to get the exact count of lines in a very large text file in R? [duplicate]

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I have multiple files with over 1.000.000 lines each, but I need to know the exact number of lines for each document using R. How can I achieve that?

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There are several different ways you could go. I'm not sure what's most efficient with files of that size, but an easy solution would be something like length(readLines(filename))

– duckmayr
Nov 13 '18 at 12:20

works so far, I thought this one would fail at large documents

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There are several different ways you could go. I'm not sure what's most efficient with files of that size, but an easy solution would be something like length(readLines(filename))

– duckmayr
Nov 13 '18 at 12:20

works so far, I thought this one would fail at large documents

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Get the number of lines in a text file using R

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I have multiple files with over 1.000.000 lines each, but I need to know the exact number of lines for each document using R. How can I achieve that?

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Daniel Gießing

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Get the number of lines in a text file using R

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Get the number of lines in a text file using R

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There are several different ways you could go. I'm not sure what's most efficient with files of that size, but an easy solution would be something like length(readLines(filename))

– duckmayr
Nov 13 '18 at 12:20

works so far, I thought this one would fail at large documents

– Daniel Gießing
Nov 13 '18 at 12:26

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There are several different ways you could go. I'm not sure what's most efficient with files of that size, but an easy solution would be something like length(readLines(filename))

– duckmayr
Nov 13 '18 at 12:20

works so far, I thought this one would fail at large documents

– Daniel Gießing
Nov 13 '18 at 12:26

There are several different ways you could go. I'm not sure what's most efficient with files of that size, but an easy solution would be something like length(readLines(filename))

– duckmayr
Nov 13 '18 at 12:20

works so far, I thought this one would fail at large documents

– Daniel Gießing
Nov 13 '18 at 12:26

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1) wc This should be quite fast. First determine the filenames. We have assumed all files in the current directory whose extension is .txt. Change as needed. Then for each file run wc -l and form a data frame from it.

(If you are on Windows then install Rtools and ensure that Rtoolsbin is on your PATH.)

filenames <- dir(pattern = "[.]txt$")
wc <- function(x) shell(paste("wc -l", x), intern = TRUE)
DF <- read.table(text = sapply(filenames, wc), col.names = c("count", "filename"))

2) count.fields An alternative approach is to use count.fields. This does not make use of any external commands. filenames is from above.

sapply(filenames, function(x) length(count.fields(x, sep = "1")))

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(If you are on Windows then install Rtools and ensure that Rtoolsbin is on your PATH.)

filenames <- dir(pattern = "[.]txt$")
wc <- function(x) shell(paste("wc -l", x), intern = TRUE)
DF <- read.table(text = sapply(filenames, wc), col.names = c("count", "filename"))

2) count.fields An alternative approach is to use count.fields. This does not make use of any external commands. filenames is from above.

sapply(filenames, function(x) length(count.fields(x, sep = "1")))

edited Nov 13 '18 at 12:37

answered Nov 13 '18 at 12:29

G. Grothendieck

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(If you are on Windows then install Rtools and ensure that Rtoolsbin is on your PATH.)

filenames <- dir(pattern = "[.]txt$")
wc <- function(x) shell(paste("wc -l", x), intern = TRUE)
DF <- read.table(text = sapply(filenames, wc), col.names = c("count", "filename"))

2) count.fields An alternative approach is to use count.fields. This does not make use of any external commands. filenames is from above.

sapply(filenames, function(x) length(count.fields(x, sep = "1")))

edited Nov 13 '18 at 12:37

answered Nov 13 '18 at 12:29

G. Grothendieck

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(If you are on Windows then install Rtools and ensure that Rtoolsbin is on your PATH.)

filenames <- dir(pattern = "[.]txt$")
wc <- function(x) shell(paste("wc -l", x), intern = TRUE)
DF <- read.table(text = sapply(filenames, wc), col.names = c("count", "filename"))

2) count.fields An alternative approach is to use count.fields. This does not make use of any external commands. filenames is from above.

sapply(filenames, function(x) length(count.fields(x, sep = "1")))

edited Nov 13 '18 at 12:37

answered Nov 13 '18 at 12:29

G. Grothendieck

146k9129233

(If you are on Windows then install Rtools and ensure that Rtoolsbin is on your PATH.)

filenames <- dir(pattern = "[.]txt$")
wc <- function(x) shell(paste("wc -l", x), intern = TRUE)
DF <- read.table(text = sapply(filenames, wc), col.names = c("count", "filename"))

2) count.fields An alternative approach is to use count.fields. This does not make use of any external commands. filenames is from above.

sapply(filenames, function(x) length(count.fields(x, sep = "1")))

edited Nov 13 '18 at 12:37

answered Nov 13 '18 at 12:29

G. Grothendieck

146k9129233

edited Nov 13 '18 at 12:37

answered Nov 13 '18 at 12:29

G. Grothendieck

146k9129233

answered Nov 13 '18 at 12:29

G. Grothendieck

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answered Nov 13 '18 at 12:29

G. Grothendieck

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