[R] Memory leak in R v1.6.0?

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Thu Dec 19 00:30:03 CET 2002


Roger Peng <rpeng at stat.ucla.edu> writes:

> There was a memory leak discovered in R 1.6.0 but it's difficult to tell
> if this is in fact causing your problem.  At any rate, you should upgrade
> to version 1.6.1 (the latest release).

Yep. In fact it is highly likely that this is the cause. That problem
was in deparsing, and almost everything does deparsing somewhere, so
simulations with a high repeat count would easily be affected.

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