What are the restrictions on seq.int?

Question

The seq man page states the following (emphasis mine):

Description

Generate regular sequences. seq is a standard g

Answer 1

seq is a standard generic function written in R. seq.int is a primitive function written in C. While both of them are written to do the same job, due do the quirks of their platforms, they can sometimes have certain restrictions. The following is an example.

Note that this is from an old version of R and is fixed in the current versions. These kinds of bugs have been observed throughout the development of R and they have been patched as soon as possible. The current versions of seq and seq.int now look almost identical. So, there should not be any more restrictions on seq.int.