[BioC] garbage collector?

Kasper Daniel Hansen k.hansen at biostat.ku.dk
Wed May 4 09:26:28 CEST 2005


Yes, use
> gc()
It should be called automatically when needed (I think), but I must say 
I get better results by calling it manually immediately after deleting 
massive datasets. 

Kasper

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:55:36AM +0200, Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Rainer wrote:
> hi,
> is there some kind of garbage collector in R available? i noticed, that 
> the memory use of R remains the same although i delete very large 
> data.frames from the workspace (using the rm function).
> 
> cheers, jo
> 
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