Barry Rowlingson on Nostr: R will garbage collect if it needs. Doing it manually might, if you read the ?gc, ...

R will garbage collect if it needs. Doing it manually might, if you read the ?gc, return some memory to the system. I've only ever seen it used in really terrible scripts where people think "Oh I should free up some memory here because I don't need all the big things I created" which won't do that (if they're in the main environment).