Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At present we restrict vectors to 2^31-1 and as from 1.9.0 have many > overflow checks in place. It's not just Fortran code, BTW: integer > indexing in C is pervasive in the R code, including in many add-on > packages.
Of course, to state the obvious, if were talking numeric variables: > (2^31-1)*8 [1] 17179869176 I.e. 16GB, which is about the limit of what current machines have of RAM, so we're not really in trouble for the next year or so... -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
