If these are identifiers, store them as strings. If not, what sort of calculations do you plan on doing with them? Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Nicolas Paris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello r users, > > I have to deal with int8 data with R. AFAIK R does only handle int4 > with `as.integer` function [1]. I wonder: > 1. what is the better approach to handle int8 ? `as.character` ? > `as.numeric` ? > 2. is there any plan to handle int8 in the future ? As you might know, > int4 is to small to deal with earth population right now. > > Thanks for you ideas, > > int8 eg: > > human_id > ---------------------- > -1311071933951566764 > -4708675461424073238 > -6865005668390999818 > 5578000650960353108 > -3219674686933841021 > -6469229889308771589 > -606871692563545028 > -8199987422425699249 > -463287495999648233 > 7675955260644241951 > > reference: > 1. https://www.r-bloggers.com/r-in-a-64-bit-world/ > > -- > Nicolas PARIS > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
