On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Tim Hesterberg wrote: > I wrote the original rowSums (in S-PLUS). > There, rowSums() does not coerce integer to double.
Actaully, neither does R. It computes a double answer but does no coercion per se. > However, one advantage of coercion is to avoid integer overflow. Indeed, as I told Robin Hankin privately, that was the design reason. > > Tim Hesterberg > >> ... So, why does rowSums() coerce to double (behaviour >> that is undesirable for me)? > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.