[R] C: drive memory full

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 17/06/2014 11:39, Hiyoshi, Ayako wrote:
> Dear Professor Ripley,
>
> Thank you so much for your quick reply.
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> I tried 'dianame(tempdir())' and removed several 'Rtemp' and all other files. Unfortunately it did not changed C: drive space much.
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> I am really sorry, but could there be other things stored in somewhere in C: drive ?

Yes, as R is a programming language.  You can do many things to create 
files.

> I called IT support, but they could not spot either.

>
> Kind regards,
> Ayako
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> Sent: 17 June 2014 10:37
> To: Hiyoshi, Ayako; r-help at R-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] C: drive memory full
>
> tempdir() is specific to an R session.
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> Start up R and run
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> dirname(tempdir())
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> and look at that directory.  Shut down R, then remove all old
> files/folders in that directory, especially those beginning with 'Rtmp'.
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> An R process tries to clean up after itself but
>
> - it cannot do so if it segfaults ....
> - Windows has rules which no other OS has which can result in files
> being locked and hence not deletable.
>
>
> On 17/06/2014 08:49, Hiyoshi, Ayako wrote:
>> Dear R users,
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>> Hello, I am new to R and confused about my PC's memory space after using R a while.
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>> My PC is Windows 8, RAM 8GB. I have run some analyses using commands like "vglm", "aalen(Sruv())", lm()... some regressions.
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>> I also use Stata, and when I tried to run Stata (big file), Stata could not do something which used to do because of the lack of memory space. I suspect R's something because R is the only new activity I did recently.
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>> I tried to google and found 'tempdir()'.
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>> I checked my temporary file but it was empty.
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>> Just in case, after running 'unlink(tempdir(),recursive=TRUE)', I restarted my computer, but memory space did not change. But there seems still something big in my C: drive storage and nearly 12GB is eaten.
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>> Could it be possible that R saved something somewhere?
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>> As I finished analyses, all I need is to erase everything stored so that I can get my memory space back.
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>> Thank you so much for your help.
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>> Best wishes,
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>> Ayako
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595