[R] lgamma(-0.8)=?

[Jan de Leeuw]

lgamma returns the ln of the abs of gamma (see ?lgamma)

 > log(abs(gamma(-0.8)))
[1] 1.747207

On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 06:54 PM, Paul Y. Peng wrote:

>> lgamma(-0.8)
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