On 7/14/2005 9:46 AM, Ken Termiso wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a script that I run on several computers, some with much less ram > than others, and I would like to try and keep the memory usage as low as > possible. The script creates variables to store intermediate results of > calculations, and then at the end writes a text file with the results of the > calculations. > > Is a quick and dirty way to accomplish this to use rm() to delete objects no > longer in use, and then run gc()? ...or is there a better way?
Using rm() is good. gc() will run automatically as needed; the main reason to run it yourself is just to make calculation timings more reproducible. It will also affect memory fragmentation, most likely beneficially, but not necessarily... Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
