[R] passing the reference in R functions summary

Rangrej, Jagadish rangrej at exchange.cheo.on.ca
Mon Mar 11 18:03:25 CET 2002


Thanks to 
Thomas and Andy Liaw for there responses.
..summary:

>However, R doesn't *actually* copy arguments until they are 
> modified, so
> the copy is really just a reference to the original array and takes up
> very little memory.
> 

cheers,
-Jag
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