How to get the memory size of a dataframe

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1 Goal

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The goal of this tutorial is to get the size in memory of a dataframe or object.

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2 Data import

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# First we load the libraries
library("pryr")


# In this tutorial we are going to use the iris dataset
data("iris")

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3 Getting the size of an object

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# We calculate the size of an object using the object_size function from the pryr library
object_size(iris)

## 7.2 kB

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4 Conclusion

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In this tutorial we have learnt how to get the size of an object using the pryr library.