R devel - Mar 2005 - documentation on seek needs update

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?
 
Thanks,
Vadim
> version
         _                       
platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
arch     x86_64                  
os       linux-gnu               
system   x86_64, linux-gnu       
status                           
major    2                       
minor    0.1                     
year     2004                    
month    11                      
day      15                      
language R

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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