Thank you for enlightenment. Apologies, I meant to say gc() may memory to the operating system as documented by the Details section of help(gc).
Regards, Adai On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 07:05 +0100, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: > > You could try > > > > rm( list=ls() ) # to remove all objects in a session > > gc() # may return from R to operating system > > > > but sometimes I find it just easier to kill and start a new R session. > > There are other things that are different in a restart: > > It sets the search list to a default. > > It executes startup code from various places. > > BTW, I'm not sure what you mean when you say that gc() "may return from > R to operating system". > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
