Thank you all for the answers. So if I may extend on the question - When is it important to use 'Literal integer'? Under what situations could not using it cause problems? Is it a matter of efficiency or precision or both?
Thanks, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Tsjerk Wassenaar <tsje...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gene, > > It means 'Literal integer'. > So 1L is a proper integer 1, and 0L is a proper integer 0. > > Hope it helps, > > Tsjerk > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Gene Leynes <gleyne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been wondering what L means in the R computing context, and was > > wondering if someone could point me to a reference where I could read > about > > it, or tell me what it's called so that I can search for it myself. (L > by > > itself is a little too general for a search term). > > > > I encounter it in strange places, most recently in the "save" > documentation. > > > > save(..., list = character(0L), > >> file = stop("'file' must be specified"), > >> ascii = FALSE, version = NULL, envir = parent.frame(), > >> compress = !ascii, compression_level, > >> eval.promises = TRUE, precheck = TRUE) > >> > > > > I remember that you can also find it when you step inside an apply > function: > > > >> sapply(1:10, function(x)browser()) > >> Called from: FUN(1:10[[1L]], ...) > >> > > > > I apologize for being vague, it's just something that I would like to > > understand about the R language (the R word). > > > > Thank you! > > > > Gene > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > > -- > Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, Ph.D. > > post-doctoral researcher > Molecular Dynamics Group > * Groningen Institute for Biomolecular Research and Biotechnology > * Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials > University of Groningen > The Netherlands > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.