dear R wizards: does R have the facilities to handle sparse data
frames? I am thinking of reading a data base like the daily CRSP data
into R, observations being firms, columns being days, data being stock
returns. but this will only fit into my memory if I can convince R to
not have to store missing observations, and to return NA upon read
access to missing observations. pointers appreciated. sincerely, /iaw

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