Message-ID: <426C88C4.2070608@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2005-04-25T06:05:56Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Restarting R without quitting R
In-Reply-To: <1114394697.6102.17.camel@dhcp-63.ccc.ox.ac.uk>
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