It's not really a meaningful concept. R does not use memory efficiently:
it leaves objects around until it runs short and then gc's. So you
can't
really find out the minimum amount of memory a task will take.
Fortunately these things are a lot less important than even in 1999.
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, loren mccarter wrote:
> I'd like to use the resources() function described on p. 151-152 of S
> Programming by Venables and Ripley (2000), but I don't have access
> to S and don't know whether R's memory functions (e.g., gc()) can
be used
> instead of mem.tally.reset() and mem.tally.report(). In order to
> implement the resources() function in R, should I look for the
> C source for these S functions and wrap them in R or is there some way
> to use R's memory functions in the base library?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Loren
>
>
>
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