Thank you everyone, that makes a lot more sense now. It's not at all what I would have guessed! (I thought that it might have to do with scope)
It's one of those little things would add just enough confusion that I would sort of "tune out" whenever I saw it. So, I really appreciate having this little additional nugget of understanding. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Claudia Beleites <cbelei...@units.it>wrote: > On 02/23/2011 05:08 PM, Gene Leynes wrote: > >> I've been wondering what L means in the R computing context, and was >> wondering if someone could point me to a reference where I could read >> about >> it, or tell me what it's called so that I can search for it myself. (L by >> itself is a little too general for a search term). >> > It means that the number is an integer (a _L_ong integer of 32 bit > actually) > > > > >> I encounter it in strange places, most recently in the "save" >> documentation. >> >> save(..., list = character(0L), >> >>> file = stop("'file' must be specified"), >>> ascii = FALSE, version = NULL, envir = parent.frame(), >>> compress = !ascii, compression_level, >>> eval.promises = TRUE, precheck = TRUE) >>> >>> >> I remember that you can also find it when you step inside an apply >> function: >> >> sapply(1:10, function(x)browser()) >>> Called from: FUN(1:10[[1L]], ...) >>> >>> >> I apologize for being vague, it's just something that I would like to >> understand about the R language (the R word). >> >> Thank you! >> >> Gene >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > -- > Claudia Beleites > Dipartimento dei Materiali e delle Risorse Naturali > Università degli Studi di Trieste > Via Alfonso Valerio 6/a > I-34127 Trieste > > phone: +39 0 40 5 58-37 68 > email: cbelei...@units.it > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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