[R-sig-Epi] memory over load?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, FZ wrote:

> This is not an epi question.  You may want to place it into the general
> list.
> If you were to do that, I would have pointed you to gc()  :-)

And more people would have been available to point out that gc() is not the solution -- gc() is always run before allocating large chunks of memory and before concluding that R is out of memory, so gc() will not help.

         -thomas


> Regards,
>
> Francisco
>
> Lynn Disney wrote:
>> I have been running logistic regression on R and am getting memory
>> overload issues. Is there a way to clear out the memory without
>> restarting R so that I can save my work? I have tried already rm(model1)
>> to remove the work from the first model so that I can run the second,
>> but it doesn't clear out enough memory.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lynn D. Disney, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H.
>>
>> Research Analyst
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle