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2009 Jun 30
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Clearing out or reclaiming memory
...he new reduced number of factors.
My thinking was that, if I could reclaim the memory held by the already read
data files, keeping only the result of the rbind process, I could avoid the
duplication. I have therefore tried (very amateurishly) to reset the read
data to zero using:
Read_data_1=(0)
Read_data_2=(0)... etc
Followed by:
gc()
However this doesn't get solve the problem. Is there a better way of
getting R to "forget" the data tables it was holding and free up the memory?
For info: I am also specifying colClasses when first reading the data in, to
try to make it more memory-e...