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'. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
