Re: [Rd] .Call and to reclaim the memory by allocVector

2007-08-29 Thread Yongchao Ge
the suggestions. It helps me to stay focused. Yongchao On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Seth Falcon wrote: > Hi Yongchao, > > Yongchao Ge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why am I storing a large dataset in the R? My program consist of two >> parts. The first part is to get t

Re: [Rd] .Call and to reclaim the memory by allocVector

2007-08-25 Thread Yongchao Ge
c maintains a pool of memory pages, > and free() does not return the memory to the OS kernel, just to the process' > pool. It depends on what you meant by 'the operating system'. > > Why does this bother you? 150Mb of virtual memory is nothing these days. > &

[Rd] .Call and to reclaim the memory by allocVector

2007-08-24 Thread Yongchao Ge
Hi, I am not sure if this is a bug and I apologize if it is something I didn't read carefully in the R extension manual. My initial search on the R help and R devel list archive didn't find useful information. I am using .Call (as written in the R extension manual) for the C code and have foun