Gunter, > there are undoubtedly still situations where R may require an unacceptably large amount of memory overhead. Recursion is one, I believe.
One can avoid unacceptably large amount of memory overhead when doing recursion in R: either by passing parameters "by reference" using package ref or by directly using environments. Best regards Jens Oehlschlägel -- ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html