On 5/4/06, r user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have many very large dataframes with 20 columns
> each.
>
> In order to conserve memory, I wish to separate the
I don't think that that will save any memory.
> iris2 <- iris
> gc()
used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb)
Ncells 169178 4.6 350000 9.4 350000 9.4
Vcells 63343 0.5 786432 6.0 290042 2.3
> for(i in 1:ncol(iris)) assign(paste("iris", i, sep = "."), iris2[,i])
> rm(iris2)
> gc()
used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb)
Ncells 169961 4.6 350000 9.4 350000 9.4
Vcells 64101 0.5 786432 6.0 290042 2.3
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