garbage collector?

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Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Rainer ▴ 430

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hi, is there some kind of garbage collector in R available? i noticed, that the memory use of R remains the same although i delete very large data.frames from the workspace (using the rm function). cheers, jo

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Yes, use > gc() It should be called automatically when needed (I think), but I must say I get better results by calling it manually immediately after deleting massive datasets. Kasper On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:55:36AM +0200, Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Rainer wrote: > hi, > is there some kind of garbage collector in R available? i noticed, that > the memory use of R remains the same although i delete very large > data.frames from the workspace (using the rm function). > > cheers, jo > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor -- Kasper Daniel Hansen, Research Assistant Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen

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thanks :) Quoting Kasper Daniel Hansen <k.hansen@biostat.ku.dk>: > Yes, use >> gc() > It should be called automatically when needed (I think), but I must say > I get better results by calling it manually immediately after deleting > massive datasets. > > Kasper > > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:55:36AM +0200, Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Rainer wrote: >> hi, >> is there some kind of garbage collector in R available? i noticed, that >> the memory use of R remains the same although i delete very large >> data.frames from the workspace (using the rm function). >> >> cheers, jo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > -- > Kasper Daniel Hansen, Research Assistant > Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen > >

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