R integers are current limited to a magnitude ot 2^31 - 1. Integer values up to a magnitude of 2^53 can be represented exatcly as doubles. At times it would be useful to be able to handle larger values.
Several options for adding support for large integers to R are under consideration, each with advantages and disadvantages. To help with deciding how to move forward it would be helpful to have a collection of use cases where something is either difficult or impossible to achieve with the current R integer representations. Examples would be most helpful if they are concrete enough to allow us to build test cases. Thanks, luke -- Luke Tierney Professor Emeritus Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa 241 Schaeffer Hall email: [email protected] Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://stat.uiowa.edu ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
