clone function

Clone/duplicate an object

This is a generic function and methods for making a copy of an object such as a curl handle, C-level pointer to a file, etc.

clone(x, ...)

Arguments

• x: the object to be cloned.
• ...: additional parameters for methods

Returns

Typically, an object of the same class and value

as the input - x.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

See Also

dupCurlHandle

Examples

h = getCurlHandle(verbose = TRUE)
 other = dupCurlHandle(h)
 curlSetOpt(curl = h, verbose = FALSE)