[Rd] Result of 'seq' doesn't use compact internal representation

[luke-tier@ey m@ili@g off uiow@@edu]

This is now resolved in R-devel and R_patched.

Best,

luke

On Sun, 29 Apr 2018, Luke Tierney wrote:

> Thanks -- I'll commit a fix after some testing.
>
> Best,
>
> luke
>
> On 04/29/2018 06:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 28/04/2018 11:11 PM, Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono via R-devel wrote:
>>>> .Internal(inspect(1:10))
>>> @300e4e8 13 INTSXP g0c0 [NAM(3)]  1 : 10 (compact)
>>>> .Internal(inspect(seq(1,10)))
>>> @3b6e1f8 13 INTSXP g0c4 [] (len=10, tl=0) 1,2,3,4,5,...
>>>> system.time(1:1e7)
>>>     user  system elapsed
>>>        0       0       0
>>>> system.time(seq(1,1e7))
>>>     user  system elapsed
>>>     0.05    0.00    0.04
>>> 
>>> It seems that result of function 'seq' doesn't use compact internal 
>>> representation. However, looking at the code of function 'seq.default', 
>>> seq(1,n) produces 1:n. What is going on?
>> 
>> It looks like it is related to using compiled or interpreted code:
>>
>>  > library(gtools)
>>  > seq2 <- unByteCode(seq.default)
>>  > .Internal(inspect(seq.default(1,10)))
>> @7fa53847dcd8 13 INTSXP g0c4 [] (len=10, tl=0) 1,2,3,4,5,...
>>  > .Internal(inspect(seq2(1,10)))
>> @7fa537fa0bf0 13 INTSXP g0c0 [NAM(3)]  1 : 10 (compact)
>> 
>> Duncan Murdoch
>> 
>>> 
>>>> h <- seq.default
>>>> environment(h) <- .GlobalEnv
>>>> library(compiler)
>>>> enableJIT(0)
>>> [1] 3
>>>> .Internal(inspect(h(1,10)))
>>> @375ade8 13 INTSXP g0c0 [NAM(3)]  1 : 10 (compact)
>>> 
>>> A non-byte-compiled version of function 'seq.default' can produce object 
>>> that uses compact internal representation.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 3.5.0 (2018-04-23)
>>> Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>> Running under: Windows XP (build 2600) Service Pack 3
>>> 
>>> Matrix products: default
>>> 
>>> locale:
>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>> 
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] compiler  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>>> [8] base
>>> 
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