RStudio Memory Usage or Performance improvements

Bjorn Robertsson

RStudio has built in features to release memory in use by objects. In order to reclaim memory, you need to run gc()

Alternative usage of the memory reclaim is to use rm() which is potentially destructive since the most common guidance is to use with ls(), i.e:

rm(list=ls())

Or some suggestion starts their code with:

rm( list = ls()); gc();

and possibly a different usage:

rm(list = ls(all = TRUE))