[Rd] bug in sum() on integer vector

Murray Stokely
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:24:07 -0000

FYI, the new int64 package on CRAN gets this right, but is of course
somewhat slower since it is not doing hardware 64-bit arithmetic.

?x <- c(rep(1800000003L, 10000000), -rep(1200000002L, 15000000))
 library(int64)
 sum(as.int64(x))
# [1] 0

             - Murray

2011/12/9 Herv? Pag?s <hpages at fhcrc.org>:
> Hi,
>
> ?x <- c(rep(1800000003L, 10000000), -rep(1200000002L, 15000000))
>
> This is correct:
>
> ?> sum(as.double(x))
> ?[1] 0
>
> This is not:
>
> ?> sum(x)
> ?[1] 4996000
>
> Returning NA (with a warning) would also be acceptable for the latter.
> That would make it consistent with cumsum(x):
>
> ?> cumsum(x)[length(x)]
> ?[1] NA
> ?Warning message:
> ?Integer overflow in 'cumsum'; use 'cumsum(as.numeric(.))'
>
> Thanks!
> H.
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> ?[1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NUMERIC=C
> ?[3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 ? ? ? ?LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
> ?[5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 ? ?LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
> ?[7] LC_PAPER=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? LC_NAME=C
> ?[9] LC_ADDRESS=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ? LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base
>
> --
> Herv? Pag?s
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