There was a memory leak discovered in R 1.6.0 but it's difficult to tell if this is in fact causing your problem. At any rate, you should upgrade to version 1.6.1 (the latest release).
-roger _______________________________ UCLA Department of Statistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~rpeng On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, apollo wong wrote: > I have a function that needs to be repeated many times > with for loop. I have take measure to rm all the big > arrays that was used in the function. The only array > that cannot be rm was the return arrays. The loop > needed to be repeat for over 2000 times and I am using > v1.6.0 in Windows 2000 > When I look at the task manager, I see that the > memory used by R keep going up and reach more than 1G > byte after 700 iteration or so. I have try including > gc after every loop. No help at all. I'll appreciate > any suggestion. > What is the command to free up unused memory in R > other than relying on automatic garbage collection? Is > there a free command in R? > Thanks > Apollo Wong > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
