gc {base}

R Documentation

Garbage Collection

Usage

gc()
gcinfo(verbose)

Arguments

verbose

a logical value.

Value

A call of gc causes a garbage collection to take place. This usually takes place automagically without user intervention.

The associated function gcinfo sets a flag so that automatic collection is either silent (verbose=FALSE) or prints memory use statistics (verbose=TRUE).

Examples

gc() #- do it now
gcinfo(TRUE) #-- in the future, show when you do it

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