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
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On Aug 25, 2018, at 9:26 AM, Hadley Wickham 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-la
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
wrote:
> On Aug 25, 2018, at 9:26 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Would someone mind pointing to me to the in
On 25 August 2018 at 08:26, Hadley Wickham wrote:
| 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#Constant
I always thought it meant "Long" (I'm assuming R's integers are long
integers in C sense (iirrc one can declare 'long x', and it being common to
refer to integers as "longs" in the same way we use "doubles" to mean
double precision floating point). But pure speculation on my part, so I'm
curious!
On 25 August 2018 at 09:28, Carl Boettiger wrote:
| I always thought it meant "Long" (I'm assuming R's integers are long
| integers in C sense (iirrc one can declare 'long x', and it being common to
| refer to integers as "longs" in the same way we use "doubles" to mean
| double precision floati
The choice of the L suffix in R to mean "R integer type", which
is mapped to the "int" type at the C level, and NOT to the "long int"
type, is really unfortunate as it seems to be misleading and confusing
a lot of people.
The fact that nowadays "int" and "long int" have the same size on most
plat
On 25 August 2018 at 13:49, Hervé Pagès wrote:
| The choice of the L suffix in R to mean "R integer type", which
| is mapped to the "int" type at the C level, and NOT to the "long int"
| type, is really unfortunate as it seems to be misleading and confusing
| a lot of people.
The point I was try
On 25/08/2018 4:49 PM, Hervé Pagès wrote:
The choice of the L suffix in R to mean "R integer type", which
is mapped to the "int" type at the C level, and NOT to the "long int"
type, is really unfortunate as it seems to be misleading and confusing
a lot of people.
Can you provide any evidence of
On 08/25/2018 02:23 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 25 August 2018 at 13:49, Hervé Pagès wrote:
| The choice of the L suffix in R to mean "R integer type", which
| is mapped to the "int" type at the C level, and NOT to the "long int"
| type, is really unfortunate as it seems to be misleading
On 08/25/2018 04:33 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 25/08/2018 4:49 PM, Hervé Pagès wrote:
The choice of the L suffix in R to mean "R integer type", which
is mapped to the "int" type at the C level, and NOT to the "long int"
type, is really unfortunate as it seems to be misleading and confusing
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