[R] memory efficiency in R

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On 19 Oct 1999, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Ben Bolker <ben at zoo.ufl.edu> writes:
> 
> >   I have a really vague memory of having read a document, possibly by
> > Venables or Ripley, discussing the awfulness of memory allocation in
> > S-PLUS, and giving (in the context of a bootstrapping analysis of shoe
> > size data??) some general strategies for conserving memory in S-PLUS.  I
> ...
> >   Does this ring any bells for anyone?
> 
> Ripley, in the S FAQ, http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/S/faq (not that I could
> remember that, but a fulltext search on 'memory' in the s-news search
> engine ferreted it out soon enough.)

But from 1992, and so not applicable to either current S-PLUS or R. (It
also appeared in some versions of my S-PLUS notes of around that time.)
There is more current advice (for S-PLUS) in the V&R2 on-line programming
complements, and there will be advice and examples, including for R,
in the forthcoming `S Programming' by Venables & Ripley.

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