Re: [R] Query about memory used in list and dataframe

2012-05-06 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Also, note that to rbind data frames, like the op says, takes less memory than to cbind. x - 1:6 list.1 - list(x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x) test.df3 - as.data.frame(do.call(cbind, list.2)) test.df4 - as.data.frame(do.call(rbind, list.2)) object.size(list.1) object.size(test.df3)

[R] Query about memory used in list and dataframe

2012-05-05 Thread Shivam
Hi, I had a query regarding which object, a list or a dataframe, consumes more R memory. Let me clarify this: For example, I have a df of 6 rows and 12 columns, say 'test'. I do object.size() and find it uses 3.3 KB of memory. I run a loop and make a list, say 'testlist', of 6 elements, each

Re: [R] Query about memory used in list and dataframe

2012-05-05 Thread jim holtman
I think you really have to show use your exact code that you did along with an 'str' of each intermediate data structure since my quick test does not bear out what you were saying: test.df - data.frame(a1= 1:6, a2= 1:6, a3 = 1:6, a4 = 1:6, a5 = 1:6, a6 = 1:6 + , a7=1:6, a8 = 1:6, a9 = 1:6,