[Rd] NAs produced by integer overflow (PR#10482)

[Peter Dalgaard]

stgries at gmail.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Stefan Th. Gries
> Version: R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
> OS: Windows XP Home SP2
> Submission from: (NULL) (68.6.47.105)
>
>
> Hi
>
> A simple computation results in integer overflow:
>
> These are the relevant vectors:
>
>   
>> sum(cur.obs)
>>     
> [1] 110231
>
>   
>> colfreq
>>     
>       other        past     perfect     present progressive 
>       14845        1222        4776      101347        2863 
>
>   
>> sum(colfreq)
>>     
> [1] 125053
>
> Now ...
>
> # this works ...
>   
>> sum(cur.obs)*(colfreq/sum(colfreq)) # note: brackets around the division
>>     
>       other        past     perfect     present progressive 
>   13085.485    1077.162    4209.921   89334.771    2523.661 
>
> # and this doesn't ...
>   
>> sum(cur.obs)*colfreq/sum(colfreq) # note: no brackets around the division
>>     
>       other        past     perfect     present progressive 
>   13085.485    1077.162    4209.921                2523.661 
> Warning message:
> In sum(cur.obs) * colfreq : NAs produced by integer overflow
>
>
>
> I saw this was reported for R 2.3.0 and 2.6.0 before, but I don't know whether
> it ever got dealt with. 
Well, it is what happens when you multiply two large integers. How would 
you expect it to be "dealt with"? If we are to have a rule that the 
product of two integers is an integer, there's no alternative. 
Alternatively, the result could be automatically coerced to double and 
would then unpredictably be either integer or double.
> Here's my version information:
>
> # -------------------------------------
> platform       i386-pc-mingw32             
> arch           i386                        
> os             mingw32                     
> system         i386, mingw32               
> status                                     
> major          2                           
> minor          6.1                         
> year           2007                        
> month          11                          
> day            26                          
> svn rev        43537                       
> language       R                           
> version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
> # -------------------------------------
>
> STG
>
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