Thank you Martin for giving to know and developing 'Rmpfr' library for unlimited size integers (GNU C GMP) and arbitrary precision floats (GNU C MPFR):
https://cran.r-project.org/package=Rmpfr My question is: In the long term (For R3.7.0 or R3.8.0): Does it have sense that CMP substitutes INTSXP, and MPFR substitutes REALSXP code? With this we would achieve that an integer is always an integer, and a numeric double precision float always a numeric double precision float, without sometimes casting underneath. And would the R Community / R Ordinary Members would be willing to help R Core on such implementation (If has sense, and wants to be adopted)? Thank you all! :) > > If you are interested in using unlimited size integers, you > could use the CRAN R package 'gmp' which builds on the GMP = GNU > MP = GNU Multi Precision C library. > > https://cran.r-project.org/package=gmp > > (and for arbitrary precision "floats", see CRAN pkg 'Rmpfr' > built on package gmp, and both the GNU C libraries GMP and > MPFR: > https://cran.r-project.org/package=Rmpfr > ) > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
