On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 14:39 -0500, luke-tier...@uiowa.edu wrote: > At this point R's serialization format only preserves sharing of > environments; any other sharing is lost. Changing this will require an > extensive rewrite of serialization. It would be useful to have this, > especially as we are trying to increase sharing/decrease copying, but > it isn't likely any time soon. > > Best, > > luke Thanks for the info.
Does this apply save.image() as well, i.e., can simply saving a workspace, quitting, starting and reloading result in more memory use? While searching about this issue I came across saveRDS. Does that operate any differently with respect to sharing? Ross ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.