Thank you everyone, that makes a lot more sense now.  It's not at all what I
would have guessed! (I thought that it might have to do with scope)

It's one of those little things would add just enough confusion that I would
sort of "tune out" whenever I saw it. So, I really appreciate having this
little additional nugget of understanding.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Claudia Beleites <cbeleites@units.it>wrote:

> On 02/23/2011 05:08 PM, 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).
>>
> It means that the number is an integer (a _L_ong integer of 32 bit
> actually)
>
>
>
>
>> 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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