On Thu, 4 May 2006, r user wrote:

> Is there a function that reports the amount of memory
> used by a dataset and/or vector?

?object.size

> If I have a dataset with only 1 column, does it use
> more memory then the same data arranged as a vector?

Yes.  (I presume you mean a *data frame* here.)

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