人们使用什么技巧来管理交互式R会话的可用内存?我使用下面的函数[基于Petr Pikal和David Hinds在2004年发布的r-help列表]来列出(和/或排序)最大的对象,并偶尔rm()其中一些对象。但到目前为止最有效的解决办法是……在64位Linux下运行,有充足的内存。
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# 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)
}
使用knitr和将脚本放在Rmd块中也可以获得一些好处。
我通常将代码划分为不同的块,并选择将检查点保存到缓存或RDS文件中
在那里,你可以设置一个块被保存到“缓存”,或者你可以决定运行或不运行一个特定的块。这样,在第一次运行时,你只能处理“第一部分”,而在另一次执行时,你只能选择“第二部分”,等等。
例子:
part1
```{r corpus, warning=FALSE, cache=TRUE, message=FALSE, eval=TRUE}
corpusTw <- corpus(twitter) # build the corpus
```
part2
```{r trigrams, warning=FALSE, cache=TRUE, message=FALSE, eval=FALSE}
dfmTw <- dfm(corpusTw, verbose=TRUE, removeTwitter=TRUE, ngrams=3)
```
作为一个副作用,这也可以让你在可重复性方面省去一些麻烦:)
For both speed and memory purposes, when building a large data frame via some complex series of steps, I'll periodically flush it (the in-progress data set being built) to disk, appending to anything that came before, and then restart it. This way the intermediate steps are only working on smallish data frames (which is good as, e.g., rbind slows down considerably with larger objects). The entire data set can be read back in at the end of the process, when all the intermediate objects have been removed.
dfinal <- NULL
first <- TRUE
tempfile <- "dfinal_temp.csv"
for( i in bigloop ) {
if( !i %% 10000 ) {
print( i, "; flushing to disk..." )
write.table( dfinal, file=tempfile, append=!first, col.names=first )
first <- FALSE
dfinal <- NULL # nuke it
}
# ... complex operations here that add data to 'dfinal' data frame
}
print( "Loop done; flushing to disk and re-reading entire data set..." )
write.table( dfinal, file=tempfile, append=TRUE, col.names=FALSE )
dfinal <- read.table( tempfile )
在将数据框架传递给回归函数的data=参数时,我积极地使用子集参数,只选择所需的变量。如果我忘记向公式和select=向量添加变量,确实会导致一些错误,但由于减少了对象的复制,它仍然节省了大量时间,并显著减少了内存占用。假设我有400万条记录和110个变量(我确实有)。例子:
# library(rms); library(Hmisc) for the cph,and rcs functions
Mayo.PrCr.rbc.mdl <-
cph(formula = Surv(surv.yr, death) ~ age + Sex + nsmkr + rcs(Mayo, 4) +
rcs(PrCr.rat, 3) + rbc.cat * Sex,
data = subset(set1HLI, gdlab2 & HIVfinal == "Negative",
select = c("surv.yr", "death", "PrCr.rat", "Mayo",
"age", "Sex", "nsmkr", "rbc.cat")
) )
通过设置上下文和策略:gdlab2变量是一个逻辑向量,它是为一组实验室测试的所有正常或几乎正常值的数据集中的主题构建的,而HIVfinal是一个字符向量,总结了艾滋病毒的初步和确认测试。
我非常喜欢Dirk开发的改进的对象函数。不过,大多数时候,一个包含对象名称和大小的更基本的输出对我来说就足够了。这是一个具有类似目标的简单函数。内存使用可以按字母顺序或大小排序,可以限制为一定数量的对象,并且可以按升序或降序排序。此外,我经常处理1GB以上的数据,因此该函数相应地改变单位。
showMemoryUse <- function(sort="size", decreasing=FALSE, limit) {
objectList <- ls(parent.frame())
oneKB <- 1024
oneMB <- 1048576
oneGB <- 1073741824
memoryUse <- sapply(objectList, function(x) as.numeric(object.size(eval(parse(text=x)))))
memListing <- sapply(memoryUse, function(size) {
if (size >= oneGB) return(paste(round(size/oneGB,2), "GB"))
else if (size >= oneMB) return(paste(round(size/oneMB,2), "MB"))
else if (size >= oneKB) return(paste(round(size/oneKB,2), "kB"))
else return(paste(size, "bytes"))
})
memListing <- data.frame(objectName=names(memListing),memorySize=memListing,row.names=NULL)
if (sort=="alphabetical") memListing <- memListing[order(memListing$objectName,decreasing=decreasing),]
else memListing <- memListing[order(memoryUse,decreasing=decreasing),] #will run if sort not specified or "size"
if(!missing(limit)) memListing <- memListing[1:limit,]
print(memListing, row.names=FALSE)
return(invisible(memListing))
}
下面是一些输出示例:
> showMemoryUse(decreasing=TRUE, limit=5)
objectName memorySize
coherData 713.75 MB
spec.pgram_mine 149.63 kB
stoch.reg 145.88 kB
describeBy 82.5 kB
lmBandpass 68.41 kB