Re: [Rd] Persistent data structures for R

2009-02-27 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
hadley wickham wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone thought about developing persistent > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure) "functional" > data structures for R? A persistent data frame, for example, would > seem like a possible way of drastically reducing memory consumption > fo

[Rd] Persistent data structures for R

2009-02-27 Thread hadley wickham
Hi all, Has anyone thought about developing persistent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure) "functional" data structures for R? A persistent data frame, for example, would seem like a possible way of drastically reducing memory consumption for many common problems. Would deve