Tal wrote: > A friend recently brought to my attention that vector assignment actually > recreates the entire vector on which the assignment is performed. ...
I brought this up in r-devel a few months ago. You can read my posting, and the various replies, at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-de...@r-project.org/msg20089.html Some of the replies not only explain the process, but list lines in the source code where this takes place, enabling a closer look at how/when duplication occurs. Norm Matloff ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
