[R] reference to objects

[Giampiero Salvi]

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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