I'm creating multiple R6 objects of the same class, my cl
class contains some heavy methods.
As my understanding - code below - it seems that each of object has it's own copy of all methods.
How can I have single copy of methods for all my cl
objects? S3 stores only single copy of a method, isn't it?
I want to scale it for thousands of cl
objects so would prefer to omit overhead.
library(R6)
cl <- R6Class(
classname = "cl",
public = list(
a = numeric(),
b = numeric(),
initialize = function(x){ self$a <- rnorm(1, x); self$b <- rnorm(1, x) },
heavy_method = function() self$a + self$b,
print = function() self$heavy_method())
)
group_of_cl <- lapply(1:3, cl$new)
lapply(group_of_cl, ls.str)
## [[1]]
## a : num 1.7
## b : num 0.898
## heavy_method : function ()
## initialize : function (x)
## print : function ()
##
## [[2]]
## a : num 2.64
## b : num -0.29
## heavy_method : function ()
## initialize : function (x)
## print : function ()
##
## [[3]]
## a : num 3.66
## b : num 1.72
## heavy_method : function ()
## initialize : function (x)
## print : function ()
library(data.table)
sapply(lapply(group_of_cl, `[[`, "heavy_method"),address)
## [1] "0x31de440" "0x3236420" "0x32430a8"
You shouldn't worry about this.
Closures are very fast in R. Under the hood it probably has some optimization ticks to recognizes duplicate function definitions and store them in a single place.