Re: [Rd] support for radix order() over entire range of integers

2010-06-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Michael Lawrence wrote: Hi, Is there any good reason not to allow radix sorting via order() over the entire range of R (32bit) integers, instead of setting a hard limit at 100,000? Many machines have plenty of memory to support this. Seems like it Really? That's 16Gb on

[Rd] support for radix order() over entire range of integers

2010-06-11 Thread Michael Lawrence
Hi, Is there any good reason not to allow radix sorting via order() over the entire range of R (32bit) integers, instead of setting a hard limit at 100,000? Many machines have plenty of memory to support this. Seems like it is just a matter of dynamic allocating the bucket array instead of the cur