Well, "integer" is also a storage.mode in R. It is not immediately clear which meaning the help page uses. I guess some extra elaboration would be helpful.
Anyway, thank you for the clarification, Vadim > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:54 AM > To: Vadim Ogranovich > Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [Rd] documentation on seek *does not* need update > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Vadim Ogranovich wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I wondered how seek() deals with large (>2GB) files. The help says > > that the 'where' arg should be an integer, while the > release notes for > > 2.0.0 say > > > > o seek() on connections now accepts and returns a > double for the > > file position. This allows >2Gb files to be handled on a > > 64-bit platform (and some 32-bit platforms). > > > > I assume that the help file just had not been updated, correct? > > Not correct. Integer is a concept, not the same as `int'. > The amount to seek by must be an integer, of course. > > C doubles (and R doubles) can be integers. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
