[R] Windows Memory Issues

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 Benjamin.STABLER at odot.state.or.us wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.  So are you saying that multiple calls to gc() frees
> up memory to Windows and then other processes can use that newly freed
> memory?  So multiple calls to gc() does not actually make more memory

That is what I said.  Why do people expect me to repeat myself?

> available to new R objects that I might create.

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