[R] Is there any way to release memory in running time?

[Roger D. Peng]

I'm not sure I understand your problem.  Your `DD' matrix should 
occupy ~75MB of memory and your `a' vector should occupy ~38MB of 
memory.  That adds up to over 100MB as far as I can see.

As far as I know, there is no way to explicitly give memory back to 
the *operating system*, if that's what you need.

-roger

wanr at ucalgary.ca wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am doing some intensive computation right now. My system is Pentium4 3.20G 
> + 1.0G RAM + WindowsXP + R1.9.1. It seems my computer is very powerful. 
> However, when I do some simple matrix algebra operations based on a matrix 
> (DD) with dimension 5000000 by 2, I found that the consumption of RAM is 
> huge. For example, the command a <- 1 - DD[,2] eats my 100M RAM. Does anyone 
> know how to release memory in the middle of program (running time)? BTW, the 
> command rm() does not free memory unless you quit R as I as know. Thanks in 
> advance.
> 
> Rui
> 
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