[R] very long integers

[Rory.WINSTON at rbs.com]

Have you looked at the R interface to gmp?

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gmp/index.html


Rory Winston
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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Robotham
Sent: 11 December 2008 17:07
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] very long integers

A quick question really:

I have a database with extremely long integer IDs (eg 588848900971299297), which is too big for R to cope with internally (it appears to store as a double), and when I do any frequency tables erroneous results appear. Does anyone know of a package that extends internal storage up to LONG, or is the only solution to read it in as a character from the original data?

In case anyone is curious, I didn't create the IDs, and in some form I must conserve all of the ID information for later use.

Thanks,

Aaron

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