That's not a bug. It's FAQ 7.31 Thierry
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium=0D tel. + 32 54/436 185 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.inbo.be=0D To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: donderdag 7 augustus 2008 11:33 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: [Rd] Bug in rnorm? (PR#12016) Full_Name: Paul Eckermann Version: 2.7.1 OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Submission from: (NULL) (129.127.183.12) This is the first time I have submitted a bug report, so apologies if I have not followed the correct protocol. If I enter length(rnorm(100*.29)) it returns 28 rather than 29. y<-(1:100)/100 z<-sapply(y,function(x) length(rnorm(x*100))) z!=3D100*y indicates that it has something to do with multiples of 7 (rounding error?), even though 29, 57 and 58 are the 3 values for which it returns incorrect values of z. I hope that this is not something obvious that I have missed. This can be overcome by doing the x*100 calculation outside the rnorm function, but I don't see why this needs to be done when the answer is (supposed to be) an integer. Regards, Paul Eckermann ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen geven enkel de visie van de schrijver= weer en bindt het INBO onder geen enkel beding, zolang dit bericht niet= bevestigd is door een geldig ondertekend document. The views expressed in this message and any annex are purely those of the= writer and may not be regarded as stating an official position of INBO, as= long as the message is not confirmed bij a duly signed document ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
