On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 07:32:46PM -0400, brwin338 wrote:
>
> Good Evening
> We have been searching through the R documentation manuals without success on
> this one.
> What is the purpose or result of the "L" in the following?
>
> n=10
> and
> n=10L
>
> or
> c(5,10)
> versus
> c(5L,10L)
Hi.
The help page ?"1L" or, equivalently, ?NumericConstants says
An numeric constant immediately followed by ‘L’ is regarded as an
‘integer’ number when possible (and with a warning if it contains
a ‘"."’).
Try typeof(1) and typeof(1L).
Petr Savicky.
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