Restarting R without quitting R
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