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Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:53 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel