On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Peng Yu wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:32 PM, hadley wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't understand what these addresses mean. Would you please help me
understand it?
Did you try reading the documentation?
When an object is traced any copying of the object by the C
function ‘duplicate’ or by arithmetic or mathematical operations
produces a message to standard output. The message consists of
the string ‘tracemem’, the identifying strings for the object
being copied and the new object being created, and a stack trace
showing where the duplication occurred. ‘retracemem()’ is used to
indicate that a variable should be considered a copy of a previous
variable (e.g. after subscripting).
"The message consists of the string ‘tracemem’, the identifying
strings for the object being copied and the new object being created,
and a stack trace showing where the duplication occurred."
I tried to read the document before I posted, but wasn't be able to
understand it, because there are multiple ways to parse it.
To make sure that I understand, I rewrite the above sentence to the
following. Is it correct?
"The message consists of the string ‘tracemem’, the string indicating
the object being copied, the string indicating the new object being
created, and a stack trace showing where the duplication occurred."
I also didn't see a stack trace in my example. If I didn't see Martin
Morgan's post, I will still be confused.
The stack trace is there, it's just that it is empty because you aren't in a
function.
I thought that there should be only one coping. Why there are two lines?
tracemem[0x05cf2798 -> 0x05cf2750]:
tracemem[0x05cf2750 -> 0x05ed8ba0]:
There are two lines because there are two copies. One is the lazy copy because
the object is modified, the other is because it is converted from integer to
numeric.
The whole point of tracemem() is to show copies that you didn't expect, so
being surprised by it is a good thing.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlum...@u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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