Wikipedia claims that C ints are still only guaranteed to be at least 16 bits, and longs are at least 32 bits. So no, R's integers are long.
-pd > On 16 Jun 2017, at 20:20 , William Dunlap via R-devel <r-devel@r-project.org> > wrote: > > But R "integers" are C "ints", as opposed to S "integers", which are C > "long ints". (I suppose R never had to run on ancient hardware with 16 bit > ints.) > > Bill Dunlap > TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: > >> Yeah, that was what I heard from our instructor when I was a graduate >> student: L stands for Long (integer). >> >> Regards, >> Yihui >> -- >> https://yihui.name >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Serguei Sokol <so...@insa-toulouse.fr> >> wrote: >>> Le 16/06/2017 à 17:54, Henrik Bengtsson a écrit : >>>> >>>> I'm just curious (no complaints), what was the reason for choosing the >>>> letter 'L' as a suffix for integer constants? Does it stand for >>>> something (literal?), is it because it visually stands out, ..., or no >>>> specific reason at all? >>> >>> My guess is that it is inherited form C "long integer" type (contrary to >>> "short integer" or simply "integer") >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel