[Rd] Re: PR#929 and [R] matrix: suspected integer overflow

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk writes:

> However, I am not happy with what IntegerFromReal does: it gives the
> maximum integer and the message.  I think it would be much better to return
> NA in that cirumstance, when most uses of asInteger would give up
> (correctly) and generate a meaningful error.
> 
> Comments, R-core?

Agreed.

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