peakRAM: R Package for Monitoring Memory Usage of Expressions and Functions

A software package created by Thomas Quinn for monitoring RAM consumption in R. The tool helps developers identify and eliminate code that uses unexpectedly large amounts of memory due to R's copy-on-modify behavior. The dataset's temporal coverage and size are unspecified.

Use Cases

• Profiling memory overhead of R functions based on the described copy-on-modify behavior
• Identifying RAM-intensive code segments for optimization based on peak RAM monitoring
• Benchmarking memory usage before and after code modifications to conserve RAM

Strengths

• Package is specifically designed to address the copy-on-modify behavior characteristic of R
• Focuses on monitoring both total and peak RAM usage, which can reveal hidden overhead

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Thomas Quinn

Collection Method

Likely a software package for memory profiling.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is unknown.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Geography

Spatial coverage is not applicable.