make_copy: Duplicate an object in the global environment
In mjdufort/miscHelpers: Miscellaneous helper functions

make_copy

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Duplicate an object in the global environment

Description

Duplicate an oject in the global environment, so that one version can be modified without losing the previous version. Useful for testing modifications to objects generated by time-consuming code.

Usage

make_copy(var_name, append=".old", envir=.GlobalEnv)

Arguments

`var_name`	character string, the name of the object to be copied.
`append`	character string, the text to be appended to the object's name when making the copy. Defaults to ".old".
`envir`	the name of the environment in which to make the changes. Defaults to the global environment, `.GlobalEnv`.