Dear R users: I wonder anyone is aware of such a thing from lgamma() > lgamma(-0.8) [1] 1.747207 I thought it should be NA as in S-PLUS. Both R-1.3.1 and R-1.5.1 report this result. I don't have the latest R-1.6.1 so I don't know whether this is corrected or not. Happy holidays, Paul.