What went wrong when you misunderstood this?
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Vadim Ogranovich wrote:
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
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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.
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