duplicateObject: Duplicate an R object

In Jiefei-Wang/AltWrapper: Create an ALTREP object by defining ALTREP functions in R

Description

Duplicate an R object, the argument shallow controls whether to duplicate the container only or the entire object. It can be useful in defining the duplication function of an ALTREP. Please note that the function does not work with an enviroment object. It will return the same enviroment object.

Usage

duplicateObject(x, shallow = FALSE)

Arguments

x	The object that will be duplicated. The object should not be an enviroment object.
shallow	Logical, shallow duplicate or not

Value

An object of the same type as the input

Examples

a <- 10
b <- duplicateObject(a)
.Internal(inspect(a))
.Internal(inspect(b))

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