Workaround to R memory leak with XML package

Question

I am trying to run some simple program to extract tables from html code. However, there seems to be some memory issue with readHTMLTable in XML package. Is there any way I c

Answer 1

I had a lot of problems with memory leaks in the XML pakackage too (under both windows and linux), but the way I solved it eventually was to remove the object at the end of each processing step, i.e. add a rm(b) and a gc() at the end of each iteration. Let me know if this works for you too.