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Share R objects via shared memory with share(), access them in other processes with map_shared(), using R's ALTREP framework for zero-copy memory-mapped access. Shared objects serialize compactly via ALTREP serialization hooks. Shared memory is automatically freed when the R object is garbage collected.

Author

Maintainer: Charlie Gao charlie.gao@posit.co (ORCID)

Other contributors:

  • Posit Software, PBC (ROR) [copyright holder, funder]