[R] Factorial

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

Alvaro Colina wrote:
> 
> El mié, 03-07-2002 a las 19:55, Ricardo Da-Silva escribió:
> > Dear R Users
> >
> > Could someone tell me if R has a internal function or package to perfome
> > factorial calculations, like 32!,?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rick.
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> Try gamma(n-1)

However, it's usually safer to use lgamma(n-1) instead if n is large (as
in n=32). lgamma(x) returns the log of the gamma function which will be
a more managable number for computational purposes.

> lgamma(31)
[1] 74.65824
> gamma(31)
[1] 2.652529e+32

Regards,

Sundar

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