Hi, Yeah, long vectors are awesome and a welcomed (future) addition to R. For whatever it's worth, I'm pretty sure that this (R-devel) is for R-2.16.x (and not 2.15.1), which is still a year away.
-steve On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Matthew Dowle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear datatablers, > > Looks like support for long vectors is being added to R : > > http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/doc/html/NEWS.html > > Since data.table hooks into R's internals, it is already failing on > r-devel CRAN checks (as Prof Ripley warning us a while back). > > So, I'll see what I can do, but advance warning that we might need to soon > depend on R 2.15.1 (or whichever version of R long vectors makes it into). > However, I'd say there was an 80% chance it'll be compile time switches > and we can continue to depend on R 2.12.0 in future versions of > data.table. > > Matthew > > > > _______________________________________________ > datatable-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact _______________________________________________ datatable-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help
