[R] how to free memory space ??

2004-04-16 Thread Reynies Aurélien (De)
Hi, Does anybody know of a way to free up some memory ? the command rm doesn't seem to do what I want... I thought that 'rm' function would free the memory used for the deleted object, but it doesn't seem to be the case, as I don't observe any change in the allocated memory for R

Re: [R] how to free memory space ??

2004-04-16 Thread Jeff Gentry
I thought that 'rm' function would free the memory used for the deleted object, but it doesn't seem to be the case, as I don't observe any change in the allocated memory for R in the windows task manager. I ask this question because sometimes I have encounter a '... ran out of memory' error -

Re: [R] how to free memory space ??

2004-04-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Jeff Gentry wrote: I thought that 'rm' function would free the memory used for the deleted object, but it doesn't seem to be the case, as I don't observe any change in the allocated memory for R in the windows task manager. That is never a good test of how much is