[R] About R memory management?

[hadley wickham]

For the case below, you don't need to know anything about how R
manages memory, but you do need to understand basic concepts
algorithmic complexity.  You might find "The Algorithm Design Manual",
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1848000693, a good start.

Hadley

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering where I can find the detailed descriptions on R memory
> management. Understanding this could help me understand the runtime of
> R program. For example, depending on how memory is allocated (either
> allocate a chuck of memory that is more than necessary for the current
> use, or allocate the memory that is just enough for the current use),
> the performance of the following program could be very different.
> Could somebody let me know some good references?
>
> unsorted_index=NULL
> for(i in 1:100) {
>  unsorted_index=c(unsorted_index, i)
> }
> unsorted_index
>
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