From 09b0d436d378db7e52ae00a0a5c592b90ff8d8f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cecil Singh <54638818+Cecilsingh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 15:23:18 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Create memoryUsage.R

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 memoryHandling/memoryUsage.R | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 memoryHandling/memoryUsage.R

diff --git a/memoryHandling/memoryUsage.R b/memoryHandling/memoryUsage.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d56d7a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/memoryHandling/memoryUsage.R
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+#The rep() function is used to repeate
+#The value to be repeated is the number 1 
+#1e9 is the scientific notation for one billion
+
+firstHalfMem <- rep(1, 1e9)
+
+secondHalfMem <- rep(1, 1e9)
+
+#additionalMem <- rep(1, 1e8)
+
+#Measures the time taken for a specific block of code to execute, in this case, a for loop
+#The tictoc package provides functions to measure time
+#tictoc::tic() starts the timer and records the current time which is used to measure the duration of code execution
+#The for loop iterates 100 times
+#tictoc::toc() stops the timer
+#tic() shows how long the code inside tic() and toc() calls took to execute
+library(tictoc)
+
+tictoc::tic()
+
+for (i in 1:100){
+  j=i+1
+  #gc()
+}
+
+tictoc::toc()
+
+
+#rm(firstHalfMem)
+
+#gc()