Hi Gabriel,
Thanks for your explanation, I totally understand that it is almost
impossible to change the data structure of STRSXP. However, what I'm
proposing is not about changing the internal representation, but rather
about how we design and use the ALTREP API.
I might do not state the workar
Hi Jiefei,
The issue here is that while the memory consequences of what you're
describing may be true, this is simply how R handles character vector (what
you're calling string) values internally. It doesn't actually have anything
to do with ALTREP. Standard character vector SEXPs have an array of
Hello from Bioconductor,
I'm developing a package to share R objects across clusters using boost
library. The concept is similar to mmap package:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mmap/index.html . However, I have a
problem when I was trying to write Dataptr_method for the alternative
string
