How to check the amount of RAM in R
Given the warnings concerning platform-dependency discussed in the earlier comment, you could for example parse /proc/meminfo
on Linux:
$ grep MemFree /proc/meminfo MemFree: 573660 kB$ awk '/MemFree/ {print $2}' /proc/meminfo 565464
You could try the second approach via system(..., intern=TRUE)
, or even via a pipe connection.
Edit some 5+ years later: In R, and just following what the previous paragraph hinted at:
R> memfree <- as.numeric(system("awk '/MemFree/ {print $2}' /proc/meminfo", + intern=TRUE))R> memfree[1] 3342480R>
Now you can do that with benchmarkme::get_ram
function.
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/benchmarkme/benchmarkme.pdf