Dealing with RStudio Aborting

[Myers3000]

Hi everyone,

My first post here, but I'm hoping someone can help.

I've been using RStudio for around 3 months now.

One problem I have on my current dataset is R constantly aborting when I use the bas.lm function from the BAS package. It keeps telling me R has encountered a Fatal Error and needs to restart.

I know this is rather vague, but can anyone point me in the right direction of how to debug this? It's really becoming a problem. Is there a log file I can find and use? Or any common tips here? Any help would be really useful.

[andresrcs]

Hi, welcome!

Can you reproduce this issue with a smaller subset of your dataframe? If not, then very likely you are just running out of RAM memory when processing your data with bas.lm().

[Myers3000]

Thanks the for welcome.

You could be right actually, it only sometimes crashes.

Another dumb, newbie, question, is there any simple way to free up RAM memory within RStudio? I suspect I've got a lot of things loaded here.

[andresrcs]

You can remove all the objects in your gobal environment by pressing this button

Also, you can unload all non base libraries that you have loaded by restarting your R session

If you want ot be more selective you can use somethin like this

rm("object_name") # Remove one specifyc object or a list
detach("package:dplyr", unload = TRUE) # Unload a specifyc library

[Myers3000]

Hey thanks for this.

Turned out I hadn't cleared out the global environment since I began using R.

Hasn't crashed once since. thanks!

[mara]

Pro-tip re. clean environments (from R for Data Science)

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