That's valid, Dirk. I will check how far I can make it work first. thanks.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10 April 2014 at 11:34, ricky l wrote: > | I use Rcpp::RawVector to allow sending any type of R data-set through > | network socket after serializing the input data. > | As I use Rcpp::RawVector, I notice that the "size" data type of the > | class is defined as int, and I got an error when the input raw byte > | size is larger than MAX_INT - the error message: "long vectors not > | supported yet:" Any one has suggestions when I want to process a raw > | object size that is larger than MAX_INT? thanks, > > With R 3.0.0, these limits internal to R moved beyond this int barrier. It > is entirely possibly that our end has not yet adjusted. > > If you actually have such a machine with that much RAM, I'd welcome tests > from your end :) It should be reasonably straightforward to dive into the > code and relax that restriction by going from MAX_INT to the double type > and > the limit R now uses (which AFAICR is 2^35 rather than 2^31 but I may be > off). > But I'd be more comfortable making such a change if it was properly tested. > > Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com >
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