[R] reclaiming lost memory in R

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ramiro Barrantes
<ramiro at precisionbioassay.com> wrote:
> Please let me know if you have any other suggestions or clues.
>
See this older post by Brian [1] and check ?"Memory-limits".
Otherwise, I remember someone suggesting that even if R releases the
memory internally, the OS may still keep it reserved for the R
process. (Unfortunately I cannot find the reference.)

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e10/help/10/05/3851.html