On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Philippe Grosjean wrote: > Prof. Brian Ripley wrote: > >You might like to test the enclosed. Drop the file into .../src/gnuwin32 > >and edit the following line in Makefile there > > >OBJS = $(SOURCES:.c=.o) e_pow.o > > ^^^^^^^^ > >Then re-make. This uses an existing solution, that from glibc (which MinGW > >will not want to use for licence reasons). It's very fast and seems > >as accurate. > > It is very fast! Thank you. This solves my problem! > By the way, will this patch be incorporated in the next official release of > R?
Not unless MinGW has not replaced pow in the meantime (which we expect to happen). My Windows mailer added a binary attachment, so if any other list members want this, it is at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/e_pow_S -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel