> But beware that a function makes a copy of the argument as soon as you try to > modify something in that argument. So, for example, if you have a big list > object as an argument and are going to modify one element in the list, you > will save memory by making a local copy of the single element and modifying > that. However, as others have said, I would not worry until you find there is > a problem.
That's generally good practice in R - always modify the simplest object possible. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
