<Jerry.Lewis <at> biogenidec.com> writes: > > Full_Name: Jerry W. Lewis > Version: 2.6.2 > OS: Windows XP Professional > Submission from: (NULL) (198.180.131.16) > > choose() returns incorrect values for all fractional arguments, regardless of > sign. It returns 0 when both arguments are negative integers, which is not > always correct (as in some formulations of the negative hypergeometric). > > Examples (correct answers from Maple's binomial function): > > choose( 4.75,2.75) # should be 8.90625
[snip] The help page does say that k is supposed to be an integer -- so I don't think this is a bug. Should the function either (a) test for k == (or close to ==) an integer or (b) be rewritten to work more generally? Ben ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
