Where does L come from?
Not that it brings closure, but there's also https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-June/074462.html Henrik On Sat, Aug 25, 2018, 06:40 Marc Schwartz via R-devel <r-devel at r-project.org> wrote:
On Aug 25, 2018, at 9:26 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, Would someone mind pointing to me to the inspiration for the use of the L suffix to mean "integer"? This is obviously hard to google for, and the R language definition (https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-lang.html#Constants) is silent. Hadley
The link you have above, does reference the use of 'L', but not the
derivation.
There is a thread on R-Help from 2012 ("Difference between 10 and 10L"),
where Prof. Ripley addresses the issue in response to Bill Dunlap and the
OP:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2012-May/311771.html
In searching, I also found the following thread on SO:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22191324/clarification-of-l-in-r/22192378
which had a link to the R-Help thread above and others.
Regards,
Marc Schwartz
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