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Restarting R without quitting R

6 messages · Uwe Ligges, Paul Smith, Adaikalavan Ramasamy +1 more

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Dear All

Is there some way of restarting R, without quitting R? In other words,
I am looking for something like the commands reset (MuPAD) or restart
(Maple).

Thanks in advance,

Paul
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Paul Smith wrote:

            
No, but of course you could write a function that fires up a new 
instance of R and quits the current one after that.

Uwe Ligges
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On 4/23/05, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
Thanks, Uwe.

Paul
1 day later
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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.

Regards, Adai
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 15:26 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
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Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote:
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
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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: