Forget past results. Resets the cache of a memoised function. Use drop_cache to reset the cache only for particular arguments.

Forget past results. Resets the cache of a memoised function. Use drop_cache to reset the cache only for particular arguments.

forget(f)

Arguments

f

memoised function

See also

memoise, is.memoised, drop_cache

Examples

memX <- memoise(function() { Sys.sleep(1); runif(1) })
# The forget() function
system.time(print(memX()))
#> [1] 0.4790245
#>    user  system elapsed 
#>   0.002   0.000   1.002 
system.time(print(memX()))
#> [1] 0.4790245
#>    user  system elapsed 
#>   0.000   0.000   0.001 
forget(memX)
#> [1] TRUE
system.time(print(memX()))
#> [1] 0.4321713
#>    user  system elapsed 
#>   0.001   0.000   1.001