[R] calculating large factorials

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Use lfactorial to calculate log factorial.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:55 PM,  <rfulton at stats.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Hi
> I was wondering if there is a way to compute factorials >170 in R i have a
> formula including factorials of nearly 10000 i know in python and i think c++
> there is a big number library is there something like this in R?
> Thanks
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