[R] "unloading" data

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Vadim Ogranovich wrote:

> Dear R-Users,
>
> I am reading the "An Introduction to R" manual and have come across data()
> function for loading data.
>
> I assume that R requires explicit loading of data objects to save memory.
> Then I'd expect there should be a function that can unload the objects once
> they are not needed anymore, what is this function? It would be helpful if
> ?data contained a reference to that function.

rm().  Applies to any object in memory.

It's pretty rare that a data object loaded by data() would be large enough
to be material in memory usage these days, but R was originally written for
ca 2Mb systems.  If it were, one might do better to use attach/detach
(with a data file created with save).


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