Luke, This is an old post from 2015 on R-Bloggers that provided some examples:
https://www.r-bloggers.com/2015/06/r-in-a-64-bit-world/ Ravi ________________________________ From: R-devel <[email protected]> on behalf of luke-tierney--- via R-devel <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2026 14:04 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [Rd] request for use cases for larger integers in R External Email - Use Caution 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/<http://stat.uiowa.edu/> ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
