There is no plan to change R's garbage collector, and I did not say
there was. What I wrote is:
If R is built to use reference counting for determining sharing
information this does not happen, so this is likely to change and not
force a copy by 3.4.0.
So reference counting is to be
Dear R Devel,
In a thread this morning Luke Tierney mentioned that R's way of
garbage collecting is going to change soon in 3.4.0. I couldn't find
this info on Google but I wanted to share what I had been discussing
in another forum, in case now is not too late to raise considerations
which could
