[Rcpp-devel] using Rcpp::RawVector whose object size is larger than MAX_INT

[r l]

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 <edd at debian.org> 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
>
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> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
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