[R] The L Word

[Erik Iverson]

Gene, it's described in ?NumericConstants

HTH, Erik

Gene Leynes wrote:
> I've been wondering what L means in the R computing context, and was
> wondering if someone could point me to a reference where I could read about
> it, or tell me what it's called so that I can search for it myself.  (L by
> itself is a little too general for a search term).
> 
> I encounter it in strange places, most recently in the "save" documentation.
> 
> save(..., list = character(0L),
>>      file = stop("'file' must be specified"),
>>      ascii = FALSE, version = NULL, envir = parent.frame(),
>>      compress = !ascii, compression_level,
>>      eval.promises = TRUE, precheck = TRUE)
>>
> 
> I remember that you can also find it when you step inside an apply function:
> 
>> sapply(1:10, function(x)browser())
>> Called from: FUN(1:10[[1L]], ...)
>>
> 
> I apologize for being vague, it's just something that I would like to
> understand about the R language (the R word).
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Gene
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