On 13 December 2012 23:21, Rui Barradas <[email protected]> wrote: > But it does, each recursive call will load another copy of the function, and > another copy of the variables used. > In fact, the cost can become quite large since everything is loaded in > memory again. > > Hope this helps, >
Many thanks for the replies. What about tail-recursion? I have seen that there were discussions about this: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-April/102873.html Since it was 6 years ago, maybe now things are little different. Best -m Mehmet ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
