This is very clearly an R-devel topic according to the posting guide, so I have answered it there.
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Jeff Henrikson wrote: > r-help, > > The R manual lists two types of memory: transient and user-controlled. > If I have transient blocks reachable from the globals only by traversal > through user-controlled blocks, will they be correctly preserved? > > Secondly, what are the ways to mark user controlled blocks as "roots" > for the garbage collector, so that transient blocks they reference stay > uncollected? So far I can only deduce that as long as the answer to my > first question is yes, I can bind an arbitrary symbol to them in the > global environment. Is this the best way? > > > Jeff Henrikson > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [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
