[BioC] garbage collector?

Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Rainer johannes.rainer at tugraz.at
Wed May 4 09:29:26 CEST 2005


thanks :)


Quoting Kasper Daniel Hansen <k.hansen at biostat.ku.dk>:

> 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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>
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