Kasper, If you're not interested or dont have time to create said patch yourself let me know and i can do it.
Best, ~G On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 11:36 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: > On 21/01/2019 12:35 p.m., Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: > > I see that base::pmax() does not support long vectors. > > > > Is R-devel interested in reports like this; ie. is there a goal of full > > support for long vectors in "basic" functions, something I at least would > > greatly appreciate? > > > > MRE: > > > >> pmax(rep(1L, 3*10^9), 0) > > > > Error in pmax(rep(1L, 3 * 10^9), 0) : > > long vectors not supported yet: > > ../../../R-devel-src/src/include/Rinlinedfuns.h:522 > > > I think a carefully tested patch that fixes pmax (it would need to > change this call from length() to xlength(), and make some other > necessary changes that follow from this), would probably be useful to R > Core, and could be posted to bugs.r-project.org. > > It might also be useful on R-devel to post a list of all known commonly > used functions that don't support long vectors; this could be updated on > a regular basis. This might encourage people to produce patches as above. > > I'm not so sure a report about a single function won't just get lost. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > 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
