Hexadecimal literals in GNU R

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# 17

I seemed that GNU R drops the decimal point. So I have checked notation with exponent being power of 2 (as in Java):

# 17

Now decimal point is correctly taken into account so I have checked further.

In the notation without exponent part GNU R just discards decimal points as in this example:

# 273

However, in notation with exponent last decimal point is taken into consideration and all earlier decimal points are ignored:

# 17.0625

In summary - handling of hexadecimal literals in GNU R is nonstandard and at least for me - unexpected.

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