Shows the amount of ram used by the current R process.
Usage
Sys.procmem(gcFirst = TRUE)
Value
Returns a list, whose values are platform dependent in addition to
being modified by input arguments.
Arguments
gcFirst
logical; determines if garbage collection should be called
before getting process memory usage.
Details
Sys.procmem() returns the total memory usage of the current R
process, and (if supported), the maximum memory usage as well.
All of the C-level source code for these methods (in src/meminfo of the root
directory of the memuse source tree) is licensed under the permissive
2-Clause BSD license.
if (FALSE) {
library(memuse)
### How much is being used?Sys.procmem()
### Use more.x <- rnorm(1e7)
Sys.procmem()
### Use less.rm(x)
gc(FALSE)
Sys.procmem()
}