How do I clean up R memory without restarting my PC?

Maybe you can try to use the function gc(). A call of gc() causes a garbage collection to take place. It can be useful to call gc() after a large object has been removed, as this may prompt R to return memory to the operating system. gc() also return a summary of the occupy memory.

Efficiently sum across multiple columns in R

I have the following condensed data set: I would like to sum the columns Var1 and Var2, which I use: In reality my data set is much larger – I would like to sum from Var_1 to Var_n (n can be upto 20). There must be a more efficient way to do this than:

IF “OR” multiple conditions

In R you can’t use , to separate line, but you can use ;. Also, the way you are doing considers a,b and c are boolean (TRUE/FALSE), which is not the case as they are numbers. Your condition should be : Note that your code will run nevertheless, even if a,b and c are not … Read more

Error in eval(predvars, data, env) : object ‘Rm’ not found

I want to predict column 3 of test_set, but I keep getting Error in eval(predvars, data, env) : object ‘Rm’ not found Even though I specify test_set[3] not test_set[1] which contain Rm The column names are as follows: Rm, Lstat, and Medv. test_set[3] and test_set[2] give the same following error: Error in eval(predvars, data, env) … Read more