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Hi, I'd like to know how estimate the memory actually used by some function call. The function essentially contains a for loop, which stops after a variable number of iterations, depending on the input data. I used Rprof with memory.profiling=TRUE, but the memory results seem to increase with the number of iterations. What I understand is that the reported memory is cumulative and based on

Hi, in my project I want the user to be able to write hook functions that are in turn called in my main code. I'd like the user's hooks to be able to call some function that set a variable outside their running environment. The trick is that this variable is not global, but defined on runtime before calling the hooks, and I don't want to leave any trace (i.e. global variables)