> > A further followup, at the risk of descending into minutia. The > culprit seems to be the emacs function string-to-number. > > On my 32-bit Arch machine: > (string-to-number "123456789"): 123456789 (#o726746425, #x75bcd15) > (string-to-number "987654321"): 987654321.0 > GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.9) of > 2012-02-01 on shirley.hoetzel.info > > On a 64-bit Ubuntu (11.10) machine: > (string-to-number "123456789"): 123456789 (#o726746425, #x75bcd15) > (string-to-number "987654321"): 987654321 (#o7267464261, #x3ade68b1) > GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.5) of > 2011-08-14 on allspice, modified by Debian >
Ah, nice debugging! That must be the issue, as I'm working on a 64-bit machine. Maybe one workaround could be to prefix the numbers with a letter in R-land so that emacs interprets them as strings. Cheers, -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
