[R] Determining the maximum memory usage of a function

[Jonathan Greenberg]

Folks:

I apologize for the cross-posting between r-help and r-sig-hpc, but I
figured this question was relevant to both lists.  I'm writing a
function to be applied to an input dataset that will be broken up into
chunks for memory management reasons and for parallel execution.  I am
trying to determine, for a given function, what the *maximum* memory
usage during its execution is (which may not be the beginning or the
end of the function, but somewhere in the middle), so I can "plan" for
the chunk size (e.g. have a table of chunk size vs. max memory usage).

Is there a trick for determining this?

--j

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