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Gainz
Gainz

Reputation: 1771

How to change memory units format in R? e.g. bytes to megabytes

the question is quite simple but I haven't find any answers on google or in the ?options function of R.

I actually updated my R and RStudio version and since then, each time I use a function such as memory.limit(), the output is given to me as bytes instead of megabytes or gigabytes. This is not a real problem but I find more convenient to read 32 000MB instead of 32000000000 bytes.

I know this is probably in some options but even looking at ?memory.limit it seems there's no units or format as arguments.

As far as coding goes I want (MB) :

memory.limit()
32000

instead of (bytes) :

memory.limit()
32000000000

Please note that I don't want a function converting bytes to megabytes, I simply want to change the print behavior of R in this regard.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 421

Answers (1)

mrhellmann
mrhellmann

Reputation: 5529

Try using format().

format(memory.limit(), units = "Mb")

Also good to know:

format(thing_to_format, units = 'auto')

Upvotes: 1

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