Hi, In the man page for vector():
length: A non-negative integer specifying the desired length. Double values will be coerced to integer: supplying an argument of length other than one is an error. Since long vectors are supported, it doesn't seem to be true anymore that "double values will be coerced to integer": > bigraw <- vector("raw", 3e9) > length(bigraw) [1] 3e+09 > storage.mode(length(bigraw)) [1] "double" At least not always... Thanks, H. -- Hervé Pagès Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 P.O. Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 E-mail: hpa...@fhcrc.org Phone: (206) 667-5791 Fax: (206) 667-1319 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel