Sorry, it's the stupid mistake on my part. Please forgive that question. I
have to unload the variable first.



On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca>
wrote:

> On 5/14/2008 3:59 PM, Anh Tran wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to work on a large dataset and after each segment of run, I
>> need
>> a command to flush the memory. I tried gc() and rm(list=ls()) but they
>> don't
>> seem to help. gc() does not do anything beside showing the memory usage.
>>
>
> How do you know it does nothing?  R won't normally release memory to the
> OS, but it is still freed to be reused internally in R.
>
> On the other hand, if you still have references to the variables, then gc()
> really will do nothing.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>  I'm using the package BSgenome from BioC.
>>
>> Thanks a bunch
>>
>>
>


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Regards,
Anh Tran

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