I don't see the cost of doing so paying off. storage.mode is really only important if you are passing arguments to compiled code.
If you are passing to compiled code, you really need to ensure the storage mode is what you think it is, anyway. Bill Venables. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herve Pages Sent: Thursday, 17 July 2008 3:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Rd] rowSums()/colSums() don't preserve the 'integer' storage mode Hi, Wouldn't that make sense to have rowSums()/colSums() to preserve the storage mode? m <- matrix(1:15, nrow=5) > storage.mode(m) [1] "integer" > storage.mode(sum(m)) [1] "integer" > storage.mode(rowSums(m)) [1] "double" <------------------- surprising! Cheers, H. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
