How to remove objects in R?

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rm() function in R language is used to delete objects from the memory. It can be used with ls() function to delete all objects. remove() function is also similar to rm() function.

Syntax: rm(x)
Parameters:
x: Object name

Example:

# R Program to remove 
# objects from Memory
  
# Creating a vector
vec <- c(1, 2, 3, 4)
vec
  
# Creating a list
list1 = list("Number" = c(1, 2, 3),
             "Characters" = c("a", "b", "c"))
list1
  
# Creating a matrix
mat <- matrix(c(1:9), 3, 3)
mat
  
# Calling rm() Function
rm(list1)
  
# Calling ls() to check object list
ls()

Output:

[1] 1 2 3 4
$Number
[1] 1 2 3

$Characters
[1] "a" "b" "c"

     [, 1] [, 2] [, 3]
[1, ]    1    4    7
[2, ]    2    5    8
[3, ]    3    6    9
[1] "mat" "vec"