How to read big json?

Question

I receive json-files with data to be analyzed in R, for which I use the RJSONIO-package:

library(RJSONIO)
filename <- \"Indata.json\"
jFile <- fromJSON         


        

Answer 1

Although your question doesn't specify this detail, you may want to make sure that loading the entire JSON in memory is actually what you want. It looks like RJSONIO is a DOM-based API.

What computation do you need to do? Can you use a streaming parser? An example of a SAX-like streaming parser for JSON is yajl.