Gabe, I don't (yet) know much about long vectors at the C level. So feel free to address this.
Duncan, I'll see what I can do regarding systematically compiling a list of functions without long vector support. These days I frequently work with big enough matrices that I need it. On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 3:09 PM Gabriel Becker <gabembec...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
