ls.objects: List largest objects and show memory use

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List largest objects and show memory use

Description

List object and memory used by these objects

Usage

ls.objects(pos = 1, pattern, order.by, decreasing = FALSE, head = FALSE,
  n = 5)

lsos(..., n = 10)

showMemoryUse(sort = "size", decreasing = FALSE, limit)

Arguments

pos	Position in search path, defaults to 1
pattern	Pattern argument pass on to ls
order.by	Optional sort order column
decreasing	Optional switch for decreasing or increasing sort order
head	Optional switch to show head(..., n)
n	Number of elements to show, default to 5
...	Passed through from lsos to ls.objects
sort	Sort columns, defauls to ‘size’
limit	Optional cap on displayed number of items

Details

These helper functions have evolved over the years; some were also posted on StackOverflow in response to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1358003/tricks-to-manage-the-available-memory-in-an-r-session

Value

The displayed data.frame is returned to, the main purpose effect however is the displayed information

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel, based on and extending code in mailing list posts by Petr Pikal and David Hinds

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