Size of an object

Usage

size(
  x,
  level1 = FALSE,
  units = "auto",
  sort = TRUE,
  decreasing = FALSE,
  byteTol = 0,
  asNumeric = FALSE
)

x: any R object
level1: logical, if TRUE, the function will return the size of the object and its slots (if any)
units: character, units to display the size, default is "auto"
sort: logical, if TRUE, the function will sort the slots by size
decreasing: logical, if TRUE, the function will sort the slots in decreasing order
byteTol: numeric, threshold in bytes to filter the slots
asNumeric: logical, if TRUE, the function will return the size of the object and its slots in bytes

character value or vector, size of the object or its slots

size(1)
#> [1] "56 bytes"
size(rep(1, 1e3))
#> [1] "7.9 Kb"
size(rep(1L, 1e3))
#> [1] "4 Kb"