[Rd] about the 'length' arg of vector()

[Hervé Pagès]

On 04/24/2013 12:53 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> Hervé Pagès <hpages at fhcrc.org>
>>>>>>      on Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:20:00 -0700 writes:
>
>      > Hi, In the man page for vector():
>
>      >    length: A non-negative integer specifying the desired
>      > length.  Double values will be coerced to integer:
>      > supplying an argument of length other than one is an
>      > error.
>
>      > Since long vectors are supported, it doesn't seem to be
>      > true anymore that "double values will be coerced to
>      > integer":
>
>      >> bigraw <- vector("raw", 3e9) length(bigraw)
>      >    [1] 3e+09
>      >> storage.mode(length(bigraw))
>      >    [1] "double"
>
>      > At least not always...
>
> Indeed.  Thank you, Herve!
> Change committed to the documentation.

Great. Thanks!

H.

>
> Martin Maechler,
> ETH Zurich
>
>
>      > Thanks, H.
>      > --
>      > Hervé Pagès
>

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