R Tool: readLines function fails with "large" files

David-Carnes

Hello peoples!
I have some code in R Studio that takes the path of a file, opens it, uses gsub to replace some strings, then writes over the original file.  It works great there, even with the file with 189,000 lines

But when I attempt it in the R Tool, any file greater than 1000 to 2000 lines has only a single line with ? as the file contents in the variable.  (Sorry I can't be specific about the boundary between "this is great" and "wait, what just happened."  Tiny files are fine; a few thousand lines are not.)

alterYX <- readLines(as.character(replacement[i,1]), warn = FALSE, n = -1L)

Are there any super secret configurations to allow file size > tiny?

Running Designer 2020.3, with R.version.string returning R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) in both R Studio and Alteryx.

Thank you for your time.

David

JohnJPS

Hi @David-Carnes,

Just going through some old unanswered questions.  One thing you could peek at is the amount of memory you're allowing Alteryx... (e.g. see some of the User Settings mentioned here.)

(A side thought is why use the R tool for, essentially, a string replacement? That's the sort of thing Alteryx is really great at doing.)

Hope that helps!

John