Tricks to manage the available memory in an R session
What tricks do people use to manage the available memory of an interactive R session? I use the functions below [based on postings by Petr Pikal and David Hinds to the r-help list in 2004] to list (and/or sort) the largest objects and to occassionally rm() some of them. But by far the most effective solution was ... to run under 64-bit Linux with ample memory.
Any other nice tricks folks want to share? One per post, please.
# improved list of objects
.ls.objects <- function (pos = 1, pattern, order.by,
decreasing=FALSE, head=FALSE, n=5) {
napply <- function(names, fn) sapply(names, function(x)
fn(get(x, pos = pos)))
names <- ls(pos = pos, pattern = pattern)
obj.class <- napply(names, function(x) as.character(class(x))[1])
obj.mode <- napply(names, mode)
obj.type <- ifelse(is.na(obj.class), obj.mode, obj.class)
obj.size <- napply(names, object.size)
obj.dim <- t(napply(names, function(x)
as.numeric(dim(x))[1:2]))
vec <- is.na(obj.dim)[, 1] & (obj.type != "function")
obj.dim[vec, 1] <- napply(names, length)[vec]
out <- data.frame(obj.type, obj.size, obj.dim)
names(out) <- c("Type", "Size", "Rows", "Columns")
if (!missing(order.by))
out <- out[order(out[[order.by]], decreasing=decreasing), ]
if (head)
out <- head(out, n)
out
}
# shorthand
lsos <- function(..., n=10) {
.ls.objects(..., order.by="Size", decreasing=TRUE, head=TRUE, n=n)
}
Ensure you record your work in a reproducible script. From time-to-time, reopen R, then source() your script. You'll clean out anything you're no longer using, and as an added benefit will have tested your code.
I use the data.table package. With its := operator you can :
None of these operations copy the (potentially large) data.table at all, not even once.
data.table uses much less working memory. Related links :
:= operator in data.table? Saw this on a twitter post and think it's an awesome function by Dirk! Following on from JD Long's answer, I would do this for user friendly reading:
# improved list of objects
.ls.objects <- function (pos = 1, pattern, order.by,
decreasing=FALSE, head=FALSE, n=5) {
napply <- function(names, fn) sapply(names, function(x)
fn(get(x, pos = pos)))
names <- ls(pos = pos, pattern = pattern)
obj.class <- napply(names, function(x) as.character(class(x))[1])
obj.mode <- napply(names, mode)
obj.type <- ifelse(is.na(obj.class), obj.mode, obj.class)
obj.prettysize <- napply(names, function(x) {
format(utils::object.size(x), units = "auto") })
obj.size <- napply(names, object.size)
obj.dim <- t(napply(names, function(x)
as.numeric(dim(x))[1:2]))
vec <- is.na(obj.dim)[, 1] & (obj.type != "function")
obj.dim[vec, 1] <- napply(names, length)[vec]
out <- data.frame(obj.type, obj.size, obj.prettysize, obj.dim)
names(out) <- c("Type", "Size", "PrettySize", "Length/Rows", "Columns")
if (!missing(order.by))
out <- out[order(out[[order.by]], decreasing=decreasing), ]
if (head)
out <- head(out, n)
out
}
# shorthand
lsos <- function(..., n=10) {
.ls.objects(..., order.by="Size", decreasing=TRUE, head=TRUE, n=n)
}
lsos()
Which results in something like the following:
Type Size PrettySize Length/Rows Columns
pca.res PCA 790128 771.6 Kb 7 NA
DF data.frame 271040 264.7 Kb 669 50
factor.AgeGender factanal 12888 12.6 Kb 12 NA
dates data.frame 9016 8.8 Kb 669 2
sd. numeric 3808 3.7 Kb 51 NA
napply function 2256 2.2 Kb NA NA
lsos function 1944 1.9 Kb NA NA
load loadings 1768 1.7 Kb 12 2
ind.sup integer 448 448 bytes 102 NA
x character 96 96 bytes 1 NA
NOTE: The main part I added was (again, adapted from JD's answer) :
obj.prettysize <- napply(names, function(x) {
print(object.size(x), units = "auto") })
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