[Rd] Generating Lognormal Random variables (PR#6843)

[Peter Dalgaard]

anthony at stat.sdu.dk writes:

> Full_Name: Anthony Gichangi
> Version: 1.90
> OS: Windows XP Pro
> Submission from: (NULL) (130.225.131.206)
> 
> 
> The function rlnorm generates negative values for lognormal distribution. 
> 
> x- rlnorm(1000, meanlog =  0.6931472, sdlog = 1)

Eh?

> all(rlnorm(1000000, meanlog =  0.6931472, sdlog = 1) >= 0)
[1] TRUE

Try reproducing with a fixed random seed so that others have a chance
to check.

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