[R] density() returns a density function that does not add up to 1

[A.J. Rossini]

>>>>> "jonathan" == Jonathan Li <jonqli at labs.agilent.com> writes:

    jonathan> Dear R users,
    jonathan> I ran into this curious problem:

    >> d <- rnorm(100)
    >> d.density <- density(d)
    >> sum( d.density$x * d.density$y)
    jonathan> [1] 2.517502

whoops, you probably want something like: 

> sum( diff(d.density$x) * d.density$y)
[1] 1.000950

instead, for a crude integration (and yes, it throws a warning).

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