[R] memory growth with rbind and lapply

[Jack Tanner]

This version of my code makes the R process consume unreasonable amounts of RAM:

  datf <- rbind(lapply(mylist, function(item) {
      with(item, data.frame(col1, col2, col3))
    }))

This version works fine:

  datf <- lapply(mylist, function(item) {
      with(item, data.frame(col1, col2, col3))
    })
  datf <- do.call(rbind, datf)

Is this to be expected?