documentation on seek *does not* need update

Well, "integer" is also a storage.mode in R. It is not immediately clear
which meaning the help page uses. I guess some extra elaboration would
be helpful.

Anyway, thank you for the clarification,
Vadim

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:54 AM
To: Vadim Ogranovich
Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [Rd] documentation on seek *does not* need update

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Vadim Ogranovich wrote:

Hi,

I wondered how seek() deals with large (>2GB) files. The help says
that the 'where' arg should be an integer, while the

release notes for

2.0.0 say

   o	seek() on connections now accepts and returns a

double for the

	file position.	This allows >2Gb files to be handled on a
	64-bit platform (and some 32-bit platforms).

I assume that the help file just had not been updated, correct?

Not correct.  Integer is a concept, not the same as `int'.
The amount to seek by must be an integer, of course.

C doubles (and R doubles) can be integers.

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