Using the following version of R: > R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
installed using apt-get on a Debian/Sarge AMD64 system with the following entry in /etc/apt/sources.lists: deb http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/debian/ stable/ The problem: I'm seeing strange results in a integer calculation as follows: > choose(11,6) > [1] 462 > as.integer(choose(11,6)) > [1] 461 11-choose-6 should return 462 of course. Other platforms and versions of R (R/Windows and R/32-bit Linux on an Ubuntu/Dapper box) give the correct result of 462 for the integer cast. What on earth is going on here? The values of 11 and 6 were stumbled-upon by accident and I haven't been able to find other example values which give a similar error. Two AMD64/Linux systems I have both display the above error, actually; I can't reproduce the error on any other platform/OS. All help/suggestions/appreciated! Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit Cancer Research UK / Oxford University PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac-uk.asc N 51.7518, W 1.2016
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