Re: [R] R support for 64 bit integers

2010-08-10 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 9, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Theo Tannen wrote: Are integers strictly a signed 32 bit number on R even if I am running a 64 bit version of R on a x86_64 bit machine? I ask because I have integers stored in a hdf5 file where some of the data is 64 bit integers. When I read that into R using

[R] R support for 64 bit integers

2010-08-10 Thread Theo Tannen
Are integers strictly a signed 32 bit number on R even if I am running a 64 bit version of R on a x86_64 bit machine? I ask because I have integers stored in a hdf5 file where some of the data is 64 bit integers. When I read that into R using the hdf5 library it seems any integer greater than 2**