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. > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > 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 > > [...] > > > > -- > > Csardi Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MTA RMKI, ELTE TTK > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > > -- > Tamás K. Papp > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please try to send only (latin-2) plain text, not HTML or other garbage. > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle ______________________________________________ [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
