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Dear core group, Which operation in R guarantees to get a true copy of an atomic vector, not just a second symbol pointing to the same shared memory? y <- x[] #? y <- x y[1] <- y[1] #? Is there any function that returns its argument as a non-shared atomic but only copies if the argument was shared? Given an atomic vector x, what is the best official way to find out whether other