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From: henrik@bengt@@on @ending from gm@il@com (Henrik Bengtsson)
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 06:48:35 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Where does L come from?
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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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[Rd] Where does L come from?
Henrik Bengtsson