[R] save/load doubles memory [oops]

[Jeff Newmiller]

The alternatives you mention are all forms of serialization, so they are all subject to this limitation. As Luke said, it would be a lot of work to fix this, so if the answer were as easy as using a different function then they would already have done that.
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Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 14:39 -0500, luke-tierney at uiowa.edu wrote:
>> At this point R's serialization format only preserves sharing of
>> environments; any other sharing is lost. Changing this will require
>an
>> extensive rewrite of serialization. It would be useful to have this,
>> especially as we are trying to increase sharing/decrease copying, but
>> it isn't likely any time soon.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> luke
>Thanks for the info.
>
>Does this apply save.image() as well, i.e., can simply saving a
>workspace, quitting, starting and reloading result in more memory use?
>
>While searching about this issue I came across saveRDS.  Does that
>operate any differently with respect to sharing?
>
>Ross
>
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