[Rd] Problem with dgamma function.

Charles Danko dankoc at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 20:01:14 CEST 2009


Hi, All,

I am getting some funny results trying to use R's built in
distribution functions.

In R:
> dgamma(4.775972,1.37697964405418, 0.106516604930466)
[1] 0.05585295
> dgamma(4.775972,1.37697964405418, 0.106516604930466,TRUE)  ### THIS IS JUST WRONG!
[1] 0.01710129
> log(dgamma(4.775972,1.37697964405418, 0.106516604930466))
[1] -2.885033
>

In C:
dgamma(4.775972,1.37697964405418, 0.106516604930466,TRUE)
Returns: -41.046764

dgamma(4.775972,1.37697964405418, 0.106516604930466,FALSE)
Returns: 0.000000

SESSION INFO:
R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Any indication of what I may be doing wrong is very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Charles


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