[R] How to remove all objects except a few specified objects?

[Karl Brand]

Hi Cheng,

Check out the keep() function in package:gdata.

And to be sure the "removed" objects are really removed from system 
memory i think you need to run gc().

hth,

Karl

On 8/23/2010 9:00 PM, Cheng Peng wrote:
>
> How to remove all R objects in the RAM except for a few specified ones?
> rm(list=ls()) removes all R objects in the R work space.
>
> Another question is that whether removing all R objects actually releases
> the RAM? Thanks.

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