Gets the memory location where the Object resides

Gets the memory location where the Object resides.

# S3 method for class 'Object'
getInternalAddress(this, format=c("numeric", "hexstring"), ...)

Arguments

format

A character string specifying what format to return.

...

Not used.

Value

The address is returned as a numeric integer if format == "numeric", and as a character string if format == "hexstring".

Author

Henrik Bengtsson

See also

getName(). For more information see Object.

Examples

  obj <- Object()
  getInternalAddress(obj, format="numeric")    # 179742632
#> [1] 1.056197e+14
  getInternalAddress(obj, format="hexstring")  # "0x000000000ab6a7a8"
#> [1] "0x600f7ddc9e68"