tempdir() is specific to an R session.
Start up R and run
dirname(tempdir())
and look at that directory. Shut down R, then remove all old
files/folders in that directory, especially those beginning with 'Rtmp'.
An R process tries to clean up after itself but
- it cannot do so if it segfaults ....
- Windows has rules which no other OS has which can result in files
being locked and hence not deletable.
On 17/06/2014 08:49, Hiyoshi, Ayako wrote:> Dear R users,
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> Hello, I am new to R and confused about my PC's memory space after
using R a while.
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> My PC is Windows 8, RAM 8GB. I have run some analyses using commands like
"vglm", "aalen(Sruv())", lm()... some regressions.
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> I also use Stata, and when I tried to run Stata (big file), Stata could not
do something which used to do because of the lack of memory space. I suspect
R's something because R is the only new activity I did recently.
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> I tried to google and found 'tempdir()'.
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> I checked my temporary file but it was empty.
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> Just in case, after running 'unlink(tempdir(),recursive=TRUE)', I
restarted my computer, but memory space did not change. But there seems still
something big in my C: drive storage and nearly 12GB is eaten.
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> Could it be possible that R saved something somewhere?
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> As I finished analyses, all I need is to erase everything stored so that I
can get my memory space back.
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> Ayako
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