[Rd] rmultinom.c error probability not sum to 1

[Berend Hasselman]

> On 10 Mar 2016, at 21:25, M.van_Iterson at lumc.nl wrote:
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I should have given a better explanation of my problem. Here it is.
> 
> I extracted from my code the bit that gives the error. Place this in a file called test.c
> 
> #include <math.h>
> #include <R.h>
> #include <Rmath.h>
> #include <float.h>
> #include <R_ext/Print.h>
> 
> int main(){
> 
>  double prob[3] = {0.0, 0.0, 0.0};
>  double prob_tot = 0.;
> 
>  prob[0] = 0.3*dnorm(2, 0, 1, 0);
>  prob[1] = 0.5*dnorm(5, 0, 1, 0);
>  prob[2] = 0.2*dnorm(-3, 0, 1, 0);
> 
>  //obtain prob_tot
>  prob_tot = 0.;
>  for(int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
>    prob_tot += prob[j];
> 
>  //normalize probabilities
>  for(int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
>    prob[j] = prob[j]/prob_tot;
> 
>  //or this give the same error
>  //prob[2] = 1.0 - prob[1] - prob[0];
> 
>  //checking indeed prob_tot not exactly 1
>  for(int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
>    prob_tot += prob[j];
> 

You haven't initialized prob_tot before starting the for loop.
Set prob_tot to 0.0 before starting the for loop.

Berend

>  Rprintf("Prob_tot: %f\n", prob_tot);
> 
>  int rN[3];
>  rmultinom(1, prob, 1, rN);
>  return 0;
> }
> 
> run R CMD SHLIB test.c to generate the test.so. Now from within R
> 
>> dyn.load("test.so")
>> .C("main")
> Prob_tot: 1.017084
> Error: rbinom: probability sum should be 1, but is 0.948075
> 
> Maybe I miss some trivial C knowledge why this is not exactly one!
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards, 
> Maarten
> ________________________________________
> From: peter dalgaard [pdalgd at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 1:26 PM
> To: Iterson, M. van (MOLEPI)
> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] rmultinom.c error probability not sum to 1
> 
> On 10 Mar 2016, at 12:47 , M.van_Iterson at lumc.nl wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I have a questions regarding using the c function rmultinom.c.
>> 
>> I got the following error message "rbinom: probability sum should be 1, but is 0.999264"
>> 
>> Which is thrown by:
>> 
>> if(fabs((double)(p_tot - 1.)) > 1e-7)
>> MATHLIB_ERROR(_("rbinom: probability sum should be 1, but is %g"),
>> (double) p_tot);
>> 
>> I understand my probabilities do not sum to one close enough. I tried the following,
>> p[2] = 1. - p[0] - p[1],  where 'p', are the probabilities but this is not sufficient to pass the error message!
>> 
> 
> 
> p[0] ????
> 
> 
>> Thanks in advance!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Maarten
>> 
>> (I don't think this is an issue with versions but I used R version 3.2.3 and can provide more details on my linux build if necessary.)
>> 
>> 
>> 
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