[R] copying R objects in C

[Thomas Lumley]

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

He's programming in C, not in R.  duplicate is a C function that
copies an object.


>
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> and the "Introduction to R", and the FAQ.


Please read the question, too.

	-thomas


> Best,
>
> Tamas
>
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:47:15AM +0200, Csardi Gabor wrote:
>
> > answer to myself:
> >
> > the 'duplicate' function does this, am I right?
> > It seems so....
> >
> > Gabor
> >
> > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:18:19AM +0200, Csardi Gabor wrote:
> > > Dear R Users,
> > >
> > > do you know a way to copy an R object using C code? I know that
> > > there is a copyMatrix and also a copyVector function. There is
> > > also something called copyListMatrix, what is this good for? Is
> > > there anything for copying a list (of course deep copy is
> > > needed)?
> > >
> > > Thank you for your help,
> > > Gabor
> > [...]
> >
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
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