[R] does a factorial function exist

Nicholas Lee N.J.Lee at statslab.cam.ac.uk
Wed Jun 23 20:38:15 CEST 1999


On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Alex Buerkle wrote:

> 
> I've looked through the documentation with R-0.64.1 and have been unable
> to find a high-level function for evaluation of factorials (i.e., n!, not
> factorial designs).  Is there such a function?

Try 
function(n) {prod(1:n)}

Nicholas

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