[datatable-help] Long vectors in R

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

Yeah, long vectors are awesome and a welcomed (future) addition to R.
For whatever it's worth, I'm pretty sure that this (R-devel) is for
R-2.16.x (and not 2.15.1), which is still a year away.

-steve

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Matthew Dowle <mdowle at mdowle.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Dear datatablers,
>
> Looks like support for long vectors is being added to R :
>
> http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/doc/html/NEWS.html
>
> Since data.table hooks into R's internals, it is already failing on
> r-devel CRAN checks (as Prof Ripley warning us a while back).
>
> So, I'll see what I can do, but advance warning that we might need to soon
> depend on R 2.15.1 (or whichever version of R long vectors makes it into).
> However, I'd say there was an 80% chance it'll be compile time switches
> and we can continue to depend on R 2.12.0 in future versions of
> data.table.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
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