Avoid early materialization of ALTREP objects #4210
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Currently, ALTREP objects (new in R 3.5.0) are fully materialized by RStudio's environment pane, since it calls
object.size()
on them. This change protects these objects from premature evaluation by avoiding the environment pane's size/length inspection on objects with thealt
flag set (indicating an ALTREP).Note that this does not protect the objects from any type of materialization at all; the first few elements will still be materialized by
str()
, which we continue to call.Fixes #4171.