suggest that as.double( something double ) not make a copy

Henrik Bengtsson <hb <at> biostat.ucsf.edu> writes:

See also R-devel '[Rd] Suggestion for memory optimization and
as.double() with friends', March 28-29 2007
[https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-March/045109.html].

/Henrik

Interesting thread. So we have you to thank for instigating that 5 years ago: 
thanks!

Matthew