I have just discovered that mode integer in C maps to int in C and integer in Fortran, whereas it maps to long in C loaded in to S. This seems undocumented in R, and the base R code is not consistent in its usage, let alone user packages. Can those of you who have long != int tell us what your machines use, and also if Fortran integer is equal to C int (which is assumed in a lot of places). I believe that on DEC Alpha S-PLUS uses 64-bit "integer", corresponding to C long and Fortran integer. I understand R is trying to use 32 bits for R "integer", C int and Fortran integer. Brian -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._