R help - Feb 2010 - release memory

I am a new R user with the latest Ubuntu release. 
My executions consume large amount of memory (up to 1.6 GB). When I try to
release the memory using "rm(list=ls())", R still occupies 1.6GB. (I
also
tried to use rm on the specific arrays which I know to be large).
What could be the reason for that?

BTW I am using the randomForest package.

Thanks

 
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Try gc()

best
milton

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:16 PM, dys0022 <dys0022@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I am a new R user with the latest Ubuntu release.
> My executions consume large amount of memory (up to 1.6 GB). When I try to
> release the memory using "rm(list=ls())", R still occupies 1.6GB.
(I also
> tried to use rm on the specific arrays which I know to be large).
> What could be the reason for that?
>
> BTW I am using the randomForest package.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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