[R] unexpected behaviour of rnorm()

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Nov 27 23:27:55 CET 2002


On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Ravi Varadhan wrote:

> I am using R 1.5.1 on Windows, and the "Inversion" method for normal
> generator doesn't exist in the "RNGkind" function.
>
> I only see the following options inside the function:
>
> c("Kinderman-Ramage", "Ahrens-Dieter", "Box-Muller",
>         "user-supplied", "default")
>
> Am I missing something?

Yes, an up-to-date version of R.

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