This is a two part story:

1. Part 1 goes over the subtleties of monitoring DRAM use by R applications (which seems impossible or very difficult to do from within R, except in a valgrind kind of way)
2. Part 2 shows the Perl solution and how one can make it play nice from within R

Code is released under the MIT license - feel free to adapt to your use cases (and perhaps someone can provide a Windows version!)

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