[R] how to force a big array to be integer type

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Does

storage.mode(Array) <- "integer"

do what you want?

Array[] <- as.integer(Array)

is I think the same operation. Both preserve the dim and dimnames and
any other attributes.


On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Jason Liao wrote:

> First, happy new year to everyone, especially to Prof. Ripley, who has
> kindly answered my previous questions.
>
> I need to use an array to store a large number of integers. My question
> is how to force an array to be integer for storage.type. This will save
> memory (from 8 bytes real to 4 bytes integer). Also I need to compare
> integers and I want their representation to be exact.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Jason
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