Not that it brings closure, but there's also https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-June/074462.html
Henrik On Sat, Aug 25, 2018, 06:40 Marc Schwartz via R-devel <r-devel@r-project.org> wrote: > On Aug 25, 2018, at 9:26 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Would someone mind pointing to me to the inspiration for the use of > > the L suffix to mean "integer"? This is obviously hard to google for, > > and the R language definition > > (https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-lang.html#Constants) > > is silent. > > > > Hadley > > > The link you have above, does reference the use of 'L', but not the > derivation. > > There is a thread on R-Help from 2012 ("Difference between 10 and 10L"), > where Prof. Ripley addresses the issue in response to Bill Dunlap and the > OP: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2012-May/311771.html > > In searching, I also found the following thread on SO: > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22191324/clarification-of-l-in-r/22192378 > > which had a link to the R-Help thread above and others. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
