[R] "1L" and "0L"

[Gavin Simpson]

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:50 +0530, bogaso.christofer wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Recently I come through those R-expressions and understood that "1L" means
> "1" and "0L" means "0". Why they are so? I mean, what the excess meanings
> they carry, instead writing simple "1" or "0"? Is there any more this kind
> of expressions in R?
> 

> typeof(1)
[1] "double"
> typeof(1L)
[1] "integer"

So the L notation ensures that the number is stored as an integer not a
double.

HTH

G
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