[Rd] Strange assignment bug (PR#1450)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

G.Innocent@vet.gla.ac.uk writes:

> 6) The above code appears to be the minimum of code required to reproduce
> the results on my machine.

You can do better than that:

> f
function(A) {
  A$p[1] <- 2
  E <- A$p 
  E[1:2] <- 0.1*A$p[2:3]
  return(A)
}
> x
  p
1 0
2 1
3 2
> f(x)
    p
1 0.1
2 0.2
3 2.0

Notice that the last line changing E is effectively changing A$p, so
something is up with our duplication-avoidance scheme. Luke?

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