Linear indexing causes trouble when an index is larger than .Machine$integer.max

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[Originally reported by @demuellae here ]

Linear indexing causes trouble when an index is larger than .Machine$integer.max:

Error: subscript contains NAs
In addition: Warning message: In NSBS(i, x, exact = exact,
strict.upper.bound = !allow.append, : NAs introduced by coercion to integer range

I am assuming because indices larger than .Machine$integer.max get converted into NAs somewhere downstream (sorry, have not yet been able to find out where exactly)

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@demuellae This has been fixed in April (see commit 0fd2b3a).

Cheers,
H.