[R] Restarting R without quitting R

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

Thank you for enlightenment.

Apologies, I meant to say gc() may memory to the operating system as
documented by the Details section of help(gc).

Regards, Adai


On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 07:05 +0100, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote:
> > You could try
> > 
> >   rm( list=ls() )   # to remove all objects in a session 
> >   gc()              # may return from R to operating system
> > 
> > but sometimes I find it just easier to kill and start a new R session.
> 
> There are other things that are different in a restart:
> 
> It sets the search list to a default.
> 
> It executes startup code from various places.
> 
> BTW, I'm not sure what you mean when you say that gc() "may return from 
> R to operating system".
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
>