[Rd] Bug in rnorm? (PR#12016)

[ONKELINX, Thierry]

That's not a bug. It's FAQ 7.31

Thierry


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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
[mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] Namens
paul.eckermann at adelaide.edu.au
Verzonden: donderdag 7 augustus 2008 11:33
Aan: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
CC: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk
Onderwerp: [Rd] Bug in rnorm? (PR#12016)

Full_Name: Paul Eckermann
Version: 2.7.1
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2
Submission from: (NULL) (129.127.183.12)


This is the first time I have submitted a bug report, so apologies if I
have not
followed the correct protocol.

If I enter

length(rnorm(100*.29))

it returns 28 rather than 29.

y<-(1:100)/100
z<-sapply(y,function(x) length(rnorm(x*100)))
z!=100*y

indicates that it has something to do with multiples of 7 (rounding
error?),
even though 29, 57 and 58 are the 3 values for which it returns
incorrect values
of z.

I hope that this is not something obvious that I have missed. This can
be
overcome by doing the x*100 calculation outside the rnorm function, but
I don't
see why this needs to be done when the answer is (supposed to be) an
integer.

Regards,
Paul Eckermann

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