[Rd] Show rapply(how="replace") as alternative to 'dendrapply' to change leaves?

A non-leaf dendrogram object in R is a list, possibly nested. In R-devel, rapply() preserves attributes on the list when how = "replace". So, the result of applying rapply(how = "replace") to such a dendrogram object is a dendrogram object. Usually, non-list components of such a dendrogram objec

Re: [Rd] Question about CHARSXP and garbage collection

They are garbage collected so you do need to protect them in C code. Best, luke On Sat, 13 Feb 2016, Holger Hoefling wrote: Hi, I had a technical question about CHARSXP and garbage collection and couldn't find the answer in the R manual. The question is this. Are CHARSXP garbage collected l

[Rd] Question about CHARSXP and garbage collection

Hi, I had a technical question about CHARSXP and garbage collection and couldn't find the answer in the R manual. The question is this. Are CHARSXP garbage collected like any other object, despite being part of the CHARSXP cache? i.e. is the cache being cleaned by garbage collection regularly and

[Rd] Deprecating old pkgDepends(), package.dependencies() in tools

We will deprecate the functions pkgDepends(), package.dependencies() and 2-3 less prominent ones from package tools, in R's development version (short "R-devel"), i.e., the one that will probably become R 3.3.0 sometime in April. Instead, package_dependencies() should be used, possibly after no