Remove multiple objects with rm

Question

My memory is getting clogged by a bunch of intermediate files  call them temp1  temp2  etc    and I would like to know if it is possible to remove them from memory without doing repeated rm calls  i e  rm temp1   rm temp2    I tried rm list temp1  temp2  etc     but that doesn t seem to work

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Another variation you can try is expanding  mnel s answer  if you have many temp x    here  n  could be the number of temp variables present  rm list   c paste  temp  c 1 n  sep

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Make the list a character vector  not a vector of names   rm list   c  temp1   temp2      or   rm temp1  temp2

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An other solution rm list ls pattern  temp     remove all objects matching the pattern

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Or using regular expressions   rmlike   lt - function          names  lt - sapply      match call expand dots   FALSE       as character    names   paste names collapse        Vars  lt - ls 1    r  lt - Vars grep paste      names       sep     Vars     rm list r pos 1     rmlike temp

[r] Remove multiple objects with rm()

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