[Rd] R's Identity

2018-07-17 Thread Abs Spurdle
According to R's website, R should be cited as "R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing". According to the home page, "R is a free environment for statistical computing and graphics". I think the term "Language" is important and should be included. But not everyone using R uses it f

Re: [Rd] Output mis-encoded on Windows w/ RGui 3.5.1 in strange case

2018-07-17 Thread Kevin Ushey
Sorry, I should have been more clear -- if I write the contents of that script to a file called 'encoding.R' and source that, then I see the reported behavior. Here's something standalone that you should hopefully be able to copy + paste into RGui to reproduce: code <- ' x <- 1 print(list()

Re: [Rd] Output mis-encoded on Windows w/ RGui 3.5.1 in strange case

2018-07-17 Thread Tomas Kalibera
Hi Kevin, the extra bytes you are seeing are escapes for UTF-8 strings used in input to RGui console. Recently ascii strings are converted to UTF-8 so you would get these escapes for ascii strings now as well. RGui understands these escapes and converts from UTF-8 to wide characters before pr

Re: [Rd] Memory leakage from large lists

2018-07-17 Thread Tomas Kalibera
On 07/17/2018 12:56 PM, Joshua Ulrich wrote: This looks like a case of FAQ 7.42: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-is-R-apparently-not-releasing-memory_003f Yes. A true memory leak in R would mean that repeated execution of the same code (e.g. creation and deletion of the list) w

Re: [Rd] Memory leakage from large lists

2018-07-17 Thread Joshua Ulrich
This looks like a case of FAQ 7.42: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-is-R-apparently-not-releasing-memory_003f On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Daniel Raduta wrote: > Hello, > > I am experiencing a very noticeable memory leak when using large lists of > large data. The code below