On Wednesday, 21.03.2007 at 14:07 +0800, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
All help/suggestions/appreciated!
The calculations are done in floating point arithmetic, not integer
arithmetic. From the help page on `choose' one might already guess
so much, but reading R-2.4.1/src/nmath/choose.c
On Wednesday, 21.03.2007 at 09:10 +, Dave Ewart wrote:
However, the underlying problem that gave rise to the difficulty was as
follows. A colleague wishes to create a matrix, where one of the
dimensions of the matrix is the result of the 'choose' function, i.e.
mycols-choose(11,6)
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Dave Ewart wrote:
On Wednesday, 21.03.2007 at 14:07 +0800, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
All help/suggestions/appreciated!
The calculations are done in floating point arithmetic, not integer
arithmetic. From the help page on `choose' one might already guess
so much, but
On Wednesday, 21.03.2007 at 09:29 +, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
OK, I understand the problem now. I was wondering if it something along
those lines, but initially dismissed that as a possibility since I
expected 'choose' to be an integer calculation.
It is not, because it would be far
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
G'day Dave,
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:59:38 +
Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All help/suggestions/appreciated!
The calculations are done in floating point arithmetic, not integer
arithmetic. From the help page on `choose' one might already guess
so much, but reading
