I am using environments to avoid making copies (by keeping references).
But it seems like there is a hidden copy going on somewhere - for
example in the code fragment below, I am creating a reference to y
(of size 500MB) and storing the reference in object data. But when I
save data and then
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Subject: [R] Do environments make copies?
I am using environments to avoid making copies (by keeping
references).
But it seems like there is a hidden copy going
= .GlobalEnv))
in new.ref avoids the second copy both in the saved image and after
loading.
luke
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