The file
parameter must be either a filename (which will be
opened in append-mode) or "-" to use standard output or NULL
to
disable profiling. An empty string "" is equivalent to NULL
in
this context.
Note that lots of finalizers are run only when R exists, so usually
you want to enable profiling early and let R exit to get a sensible
profile. Running gc may be helpful to get rid of references that can
be collected in R.
A simple perl script is provided to analyze the result of the
profiler. Due to its simple text format, it is possible to capture
entire stdout including the profiler information to have both the
console context for the allocations and the profile. Memory profiling
is also helpful if rJava debug is enabled.
Note that memory profiling support must be compiled in rJava and it is
by default compiled only if debug mode is enabled (which is not the
case by default).