Memory usage Check

Function checks memory usage and shows the biggest objects in the given environment

Usage

memCheck(
  order.by = "Size",
  decreasing = TRUE,
  n = NULL,
  envir = parent.frame(),
  gc = TRUE
)

Arguments

order.by

Column based on which the data should be sorted

decreasing

Determines whether the values should be in an increasing or decreasing order

n

Limit of number of elements that should be shown. NULL means no limit

envir

Environment which should be analyzed, but default the parent environment relative to this function.

gc

Determines whether the garbage collector should be executed at the end of the function for additional information

Details

This function is based on an idea posted at stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1358003/tricks-to-manage-the-available-memory-in-an-r-session

Author

Jan Philipp Dietrich

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
memCheck()
} # }