[R] memory location of object?

[Martin Morgan]

On 01/10/2011 11:16 AM, maddox wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I haven't found a way to display the memory location of an object in R. 
> Is there one? (I want to see whether some code 'grows' an object, and
> an ever-changing memory location for the object would presumably confirm
> this)

For what you ask

> x = 1:10; .Internal(inspect(x))
@b0d9c8 13 INTSXP g0c4 [NAM(1)] (len=10, tl=0) 1,2,3,4,5,...

but maybe you're looking for

> x = y = 1:10; tracemem(x); x[1] = 1L
[1] "<0x923450>"
tracemem[0x923450 -> 0x9234a8]:

Martin

> 
> Thanks
> 
> m


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