>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:17:32 -0400 writes:
Duncan> I've now tried the code
set.seed(1)
x <- rnorm(50)
y <- rnorm(50)
cor.test(x,y,method="spearman")
x <- rnorm(50)
y <- rnorm(50)
cor.test(x,y,method="spearman")
Duncan> in r-patched (which gives apparently correct results), and r-devel,
Duncan> which gives the first result correct, the second incorrect; when
Duncan> repeated, both are bad.
Hmm,
funny.
I get repeatable results in in R 1.7.1 , 1.8.0, R-patched and
R-devel (all on Linux),
with an (ugly but convenient) 1-liner :
> set.seed(1); for(k in 1:2){x <- rnorm(50);y <-
> rnorm(50);print(unlist(cor.test(x,y,method="spearman")[1:4]))}
statistic.S p.value estimate.rho
23640.0000000 0.3482088 -0.1351741
statistic.S p.value estimate.rho
1.724800e+04 2.322263e-01 1.717647e-01
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