Clones an Object

Creates an identical copy of the object and returns a reference to the new object.

# S3 method for class 'Object'
clone(this, ...)

Arguments

...

Not used.

Value

A reference to the new object.

Details

Please note that no constructors are called during the creation of the clone and neither is any static class code called.

See also

For more information see Object.

Author

Henrik Bengtsson

Examples

  o1 <- Object()
  o2 <- clone(o1)

  print(equals(o1, o2))
#> [1] FALSE