[R] Is there any way to release memory in running time?

[Sean Davis]

See ?gc.

Sean

On Sep 30, 2004, at 12:52 PM, <wanr at ucalgary.ca> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am doing some intensive computation right now. My system is Pentium4 
> 3.20G
> + 1.0G RAM + WindowsXP + R1.9.1. It seems my computer is very powerful.
> However, when I do some simple matrix algebra operations based on a 
> matrix
> (DD) with dimension 5000000 by 2, I found that the consumption of RAM 
> is
> huge. For example, the command a <- 1 - DD[,2] eats my 100M RAM. Does 
> anyone
> know how to release memory in the middle of program (running time)? 
> BTW, the
> command rm() does not free memory unless you quit R as I as know. 
> Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Rui
>
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