In this R article, we will discuss how to clean up memory with its working example in the R programming language. Let’s first discuss removing objects from our workspace first.
rm() function in R Language is used to delete objects from the workspace. It can be used with ls() function to delete all objects. remove() function is also similar to rm() function.
Syntax: rm(x)
Parameters:
x: Object name
Example:
In this example, we are creating some data and remove from the workspace.
R
vec <- c (1, 2, 3, 4)
vec
list1 = list ( "Number" = c (1, 2, 3),
"Characters" = c ( "a" , "b" , "c" ))
list1
mat <- matrix ( c (1:9), 3, 3)
mat
rm (list1)
ls ()
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Output:
[1] 1 2 3 4
$Number
[1] 1 2 3
$Characters
[1] "a" "b" "c"
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 4 7
[2,] 2 5 8
[3,] 3 6 9
[1] "mat" "vec"
Using gc() function to remove all objects that are used from memory:
gc() is used to remove all objects that are used from memory.
Syntax:
gc(reset = TRUE)
reset is an optional parameter.
It will return the maximum memory used in Mb.
Example:
In this example, we are creating some data and remove from memory.
R
vec <- c (1, 2, 3, 4)
vec
list1 = list ( "Number" = c (1, 2, 3),
"Characters" = c ( "a" , "b" , "c" ))
list1
mat <- matrix ( c (1:9), 3, 3)
mat
gc ()
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Output:
[1] 1 2 3 4
$Number
[1] 1 2 3
$Characters
[1] "a" "b" "c"
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 4 7
[2,] 2 5 8
[3,] 3 6 9
used (Mb) gc trigger (Mb) max used (Mb)
Ncells 271233 14.5 654180 35 448093 24.0
Vcells 458584 3.5 8388608 64 1770431 13.6
Last Updated :
01 May, 2022
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