[R] copying R objects in C

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Tamas Papp wrote:

> You can tell what a function does by looking at its help page, eg:
> 
> ?duplicate
> 
> There is no such function in R (1.9.0), so I don't see how you came
> across that function name.

It's a C function (see the subject line), except that the external symbol
name gets remapped to Rf_duplicate.  You need this for writing code for
the .Call and similar interfaces.

> R performs a deep copy "on demand", and generally you should not worry
> about this, just use the assignment operator "<-".

Not `from C'.

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