At the end of a for loop its variables are still present: for (i in 1:10) { x <- vector(length=100000000) } ls()
will print "i" and "x". this means that at the end of the for loop body I have to write rm(x) gc() is there a more elegant way to handle this? Thanks. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) X 11.0.11103000 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://camera.org http://palestinefacts.org http://iris.org.il http://www.PetitionOnline.com/tap12009/ http://truepeace.org Computers are like air conditioners: they don't work with open windows! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.