Startup/Initialization Memory Leak in R

Note that this about initialisation of the R shared library R.so, not the
R executable.

This may need fixing -- with a standalone executable the operating system
will handle memory release when the program exits, but with an R library
dynamically loaded into another process it won't.

OTOH, why do you want to load and unload R lots of times?

	-thomas

    Is it already known that R does not free the memory that it allocates
during start-up (~10MB) when it exits?  If so, are there currently any
plans to address this problem?  I noticed that the 1.6.0 beta leaks
slightly more memory (~300k) than the 1.5.1 stable version.

    I am working on a project that links with the R library, and there is a
question about unloading and later re-loading the R library, so this memory
leak could become a real issue.

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