On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 12:01, Marc Schwartz wrote: > There also appears to be some memory allocation "adjustment" at play > here. Note: > > > object.size(factor("1000000000000")) > [1] 244 > > > object.size(factor("1000000000000", "a")) > [1] 236
Arggh. Negate that last comment. I had a typo in the second example. It should be: > object.size(factor(c("1000000000000", "a"))) [1] 252 which of course results in an increase in memory. Geez. Time for lunch. Marc ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html