reference to objects
Thank you, I'll read the documentation... Giampiero
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Eric Lecoutre wrote:
Hi, You will find some pieces of information about the way to handle such things at: http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/ Programming with references Note that you will have to download and install the package developped by the author, Henrik Bengtsson HTH, Eric At 14:22 16/01/2004, Giampiero Salvi wrote:
Hi, is there a way to reference to a data object without copying it? For example I have a huge matrix called dist and I want two objects obj1 and obj2 to have a memeber dist that points to the matrix, but I don't want, for memory reasons, to copy the matrix twice. As far as I understand the following code will generate three copies of my data: dist <- some_code_that_generates_data obj1$dist <- dist obj2$dist <- dist Thank you! Giampiero
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