[R] R garbage collection

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is very clearly an R-devel topic according to the posting guide, so I 
have answered it there.

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Jeff Henrikson wrote:

> r-help,
>
> The R manual lists two types of memory: transient and user-controlled.
> If I have transient blocks reachable from the globals only by traversal
> through user-controlled blocks, will they be correctly preserved?
>
> Secondly, what are the ways to mark user controlled blocks as "roots"
> for the garbage collector, so that transient blocks they reference stay
> uncollected?  So far I can only deduce that as long as the answer to my
> first question is yes, I can bind an arbitrary symbol to them in the
> global environment.  Is this the best way?
>
>
> Jeff Henrikson

> PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html

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