From gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si  Wed Nov 19 18:49:43 2008
From: gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si (Gregor Gorjanc)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:49:43 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Rd] Wishlist - better object.size() function
References: <4922C37C.7080301@imbe.med.uni-erlangen.de>
Message-ID: <loom.20081119T174639-46@post.gmane.org>

Benjamin Hofner <Benjamin.Hofner <at> imbe.med.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
...
> - Why is the function returning the size in bytes? This is (in most 
> cases) overly accurate and for humans hard to read. I would suggest to 
> have it printed in mb per default and additionally add a switch to 
> choose the appropriate unit.
> 
> This is a first proposal:
...

There was a such proposal some time ago. See

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2006-August/038935.html
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2006-September/042673.html
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/devel/06/09/0181.html

Unfortunatelly, there was no interest in adding this to R. I removed the
files mentioned in above posts. However, the proposed implementation was
added to my "private-playground" package ggmisc. The package can be downloaded
at

http://gregor.gorjanc.googlepages.com/ggmisc_0.2.1.tar.gz
http://gregor.gorjanc.googlepages.com/ggmisc_0.2.1.zip 

gg



[Rd] Wishlist - better object.size() function
Gregor Gorjanc