[Rd] documentation on seek needs update

Vadim Ogranovich vograno at evafunds.com
Tue Mar 22 18:48:16 CET 2005


 Hi,
 
I wondered how seek() deals with large (>2GB) files. The help says that
the 'where' arg should be an integer, while the release notes for 2.0.0
say

    o	seek() on connections now accepts and returns a double for the
	file position.	This allows >2Gb files to be handled on a
	64-bit platform (and some 32-bit platforms).
 
I assume that the help file just had not been updated, correct?
 
Thanks,
Vadim

> version
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platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
arch     x86_64                  
os       linux-gnu               
system   x86_64, linux-gnu       
status                           
major    2                       
minor    0.1                     
year     2004                    
month    11                      
day      15                      
language R



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