Don't forget the possibility of "hidden files", which will not be shown using normal file-listing procedures. It may be that R has stored those files as hidden files.
See, for example: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/show-hidden-files http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/394-hidden-files-folders-show-hide.html [NB: These are the results of a google search. I am no expert on Windows myself ... ] Hoping this helps, Ted. On 17-Jun-2014 12:48:54 Hiyoshi, Ayako wrote: > Dear Martyn and Professor Ripley, > > Thank you so much for your help. I used Window's large file search (it was > useful! thank you), but there is no big files detected in C: drive . > Perhaps I will have to reinstall Windows.. > > Thank you so much for your replies. > > Best wishes, > Ayako > ________________________________________ > From: Martyn Byng <martyn.b...@nag.co.uk> > Sent: 17 June 2014 12:10 > To: Hiyoshi, Ayako; Prof Brian Ripley; r-help@R-project.org > Subject: RE: [R] C: drive memory full > > Hi, > > Try > > http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/19295.windows-8-how > -to-search-for-large-files.aspx > > Martyn > > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Hiyoshi, Ayako > Sent: 17 June 2014 11:40 > To: Prof Brian Ripley; r-help@R-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] C: drive memory full > > Dear Professor Ripley, > > Thank you so much for your quick reply. > > I tried 'dianame(tempdir())' and removed several 'Rtemp' and all other files. > Unfortunately it did not changed C: drive space much. > > I am really sorry, but could there be other things stored in somewhere in C: > drive ? > > I called IT support, but they could not spot either. > > Kind regards, > Ayako > > ________________________________________ > From: Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> > Sent: 17 June 2014 10:37 > To: Hiyoshi, Ayako; r-help@R-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] C: drive memory full > > tempdir() is specific to an R session. > > Start up R and run > > dirname(tempdir()) > > and look at that directory. Shut down R, then remove all old files/folders > in that directory, especially those beginning with 'Rtmp'. > > An R process tries to clean up after itself but > > - it cannot do so if it segfaults .... > - Windows has rules which no other OS has which can result in files being > locked and hence not deletable. > > > On 17/06/2014 08:49, Hiyoshi, Ayako wrote: >> Dear R users, >> >> Hello, I am new to R and confused about my PC's memory space after >> using R a while. >> >> My PC is Windows 8, RAM 8GB. I have run some analyses using commands >> like "vglm", "aalen(Sruv())", lm()... some regressions. >> >> I also use Stata, and when I tried to run Stata (big file), Stata >> could not do something which used to do because of the lack of memory >> space. I suspect R's something because R is the only new activity I >> did recently. >> >> I tried to google and found 'tempdir()'. >> >> I checked my temporary file but it was empty. >> >> Just in case, after running 'unlink(tempdir(),recursive=TRUE)', I >> restarted my computer, but memory space did not change. But there >> seems still something big in my C: drive storage and nearly 12GB >> is eaten. >> >> Could it be possible that R saved something somewhere? >> >> As I finished analyses, all I need is to erase everything stored >> so that I can get my memory space back. >> >> Ayako >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Date: 17-Jun-2014 Time: 14:14:40 This message was sent by XFMail ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
