On 04/24/2013 12:53 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
Hervé Pagès <hpa...@fhcrc.org>
on Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:20:00 -0700 writes:
> 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...
Indeed. Thank you, Herve!
Change committed to the documentation.
Great. Thanks!
H.
Martin Maechler,
ETH Zurich
> Thanks, H.
> --
> Hervé Pagès
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