> * R. Michael Weylandt <zvpunry.jrlyn...@tznvy.pbz> [2012-08-28 13:45:35 > -0500]: > >> always you shouldn't need manual garbage collection.
my observation is that gc in R sucks. (it cannot release small objects). this is not specific to R; ocaml suffers too. > since a loop doesn't define its own scope like some languages (a > practice that always seemed strange to me), every level of indentation has its own scope. seems reasonable. > The other answer is to use functions / apply statements like the good > lord and John Chambers intended :-) so explicit loops are "deprecated" in some sense? thanks for your kind and informative reply! -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) X 11.0.11103000 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://ffii.org http://mideasttruth.com http://think-israel.org http://pmw.org.il http://honestreporting.com Computers are like air conditioners: they don't work with open windows! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
