[R] reference to objects

[Eric Lecoutre]

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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