I saw this in http://groups.google.com.au/group/r-help-archive/browse_thread/thread/7dca300a7fde5286/718dc5f1405618c9?lnk=gst&q=sort(+sapply(ls()%2Cfunction(x){object.size(get(x))}))#718dc5f1405618c9
The command is something like sort( sapply(ls(),function(x){object.size(get(x))})) very useful, so I have added it to my .First function On Mar 11, 8:29 am, Jason Rupert <jasonkrup...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Wow. Thank you for your quick response. However, I'm looking for an R > command that lists what is currently in the R workspace. > > Here is a link to a description of the MATLAB "whos" > command:http://www.math.carleton.ca/old/help/matlab/MathWorks_R13Doc/techdoc/... > Essentially, it does the following: > "who lists the variables currently in the workspace. > > whos lists the current variables and their sizes and types. It also reports > the totals for sizes. > > who('global') and whos('global') list the variables in the global workspace > " > > --- On Tue, 3/10/09, Jorge Ivan Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > From: Jorge Ivan Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: [R] R equivalent to MATLAB's "whos" Command? > > To: jasonkrup...@yahoo.com > > Cc: r-h...@r-project.org > > Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 4:14 PM > > Dear Jason, > > How about this? > > > ?ls() > > ls() > > > HTH, > > > Jorge > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Jason Rupert > > <jasonkrup...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > By any chance is there an R equivalent to MATLAB' "whos" command? I tried > searching R and R-seek, but didn't really come up with anything. There are > several items I would like to make sure are stored in the workspace and check > their values. Thank you again for your help and any feedback. > > > > > > > ?workspace > > > No documentation for 'workspace' in specified > > packages and libraries: > > > you could try '??workspace' > > > > ??workspace > > > No help files found with alias or concept or title > > matching using fuzzy matching. > > > > ??whos > > > No help files found with alias or concept or title > > matching using regular expression matching. > > > > ??whos > > > No help files found with alias or concept or title > > matching using regular expression matching. > > > > ?whos > > > No documentation for 'whos' in specified > > packages and libraries: > > > you could try '??whos' > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > r-h...@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. > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ 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.