That is certainly true because I have seen differences due to the
sharing of values. I also look at what 'gc()' shows at the memory
being used. Does this provide a reasonable estimate of the total
space being used?
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, jim holtman wrote:
>
>> Here is a function I use to see how big the objects in my workspace are:
>
> Be careful with the caveats spelled out in ?object.size. Especially for
> character data such summations can be way off.
>
>>
>>> my.ls <-
>>
>> + function (pos = 1, sorted = F)
>> + {
>> + .result <- sapply(ls(pos = pos, all.names = TRUE), function(..x)
>> object.size(eval(as.symbol(..x))))
>> + if (sorted) {
>> + .result <- rev(sort(.result))
>> + }
>> + .ls <- as.data.frame(rbind(as.matrix(.result), `**Total` =
>> sum(.result)))
>> + names(.ls) <- "Size"
>> + .ls$Size <- formatC(.ls$Size, big.mark = ",", digits = 0,
>> + format = "f")
>> + .ls$Mode <- c(unlist(lapply(rownames(.ls)[-nrow(.ls)],
>> function(x) mode(eval(as.symbol(x))))),
>> + "-------")
>> + .ls
>> + }
>>>
>>> my.ls()
>>
>> Size Mode
>> .my.env 28 environment
>> .Random.seed 2,528 numeric
>> .required 72 character
>> my.ls 6,712 function
>> **Total 9,340 -------
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Gundala Viswanath <gunda...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Is there a way we can find the total object.size of
>>> all the objects in our R script?
>>>
>>> The reason we want to do this because we want to know
>>> how much memory does our R script require overall.
>>>
>>> Rprofmem(), doesn't seem to do it.
>>>
>>> and Unix 'top' command is dynamic and
>>> it doesn't give the exact byte size.
>>>
>>> - Gundala Viswanath
>>> Jakarta - Indonesia
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jim Holtman
>> Cincinnati, OH
>> +1 513 646 9390
>>
>> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
>>
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>
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