[R] Is there a way to detect when gc() is called?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> A finalizer feature is really great. However, currently this is actually
> more than I need. I only need to know when the garbage collector is started,
> not what object it is removing. In other words, I would like to have
> function myGC(...) called *automatically* when the memory is running low,
> almost like a onLowMemory="myGC()".
>

For that I think you'd have to hack into the garbage collector code
yourself.


	-thomas

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