On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Vadim Ogranovich wrote: > Setting A <- NULL doesn't immediately release the memory, the memory is > actually released in gc(), which R calls for you at some "random" time. > In situations like this I explicitely call gc() and do not wait for R to > do this, e.g > A <- NULL; gc()
`Some random time' always includes immediately before giving an out-of-memory error message. What's wrong with rm(A), as used in the first session in `An Introduction to R'? -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
