[R] How to clear R memory in a for loop

[Jeff Newmiller]

You don't say what processing you are doing.. the answer to your question is very likely there. To communicate effectively on this mailing list, self-contained examples are needed. And in order to not corrupt the example you will need to post in plain text.
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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On October 20, 2014 8:30:21 AM PDT, Dimitri Liakhovitski <dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear Rers,
>
>I am trying to run a for-loop in R.
>During each iteration I read in an mp3 file and do some basic
>processing.
>If I do what I need to do for each file one by one - it works fine.
>But once I start running a loop, it soon runs out of memory and says:
>can't
>allocate a vector of size...
>In each iteration of my loop I always overwrite the previously created
>object and do gc().
>
>Any hints on how to fight this?
>
>Thanks a lot!
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