Re: [Rd] potential bug in attribute handling for externalptr

2017-04-15 Thread Jeroen Ooms
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Patrick Perry wrote: > Is the following expected behavior? I would expect that modifying y's > attributes should not affect x. Yes this is expected. Environments and external-ptr objects are never copied on assignment, hence in your example 'x' and 'y' are the s

Re: [Rd] potential bug in attribute handling for externalptr

2017-04-15 Thread Lionel Henry
This is expected behaviour, pointers are an uncopyable type, just like environments: env <- new.env() env #> structure(env, foo = "bar") env #> #> attr(,"foo") #> [1] "bar" On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Patrick Perry wrote: > Is the following expected behavior? > > > mkext <- inline::cf