[R] problem with function "Truncate" in package "distr"

[Peter Ruckdeschel]

Am 21.09.2011 17:05, schrieb Uwe Ligges:
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> 
> On 21.09.2011 11:53, Duarte Viana wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Can someone tell me why the following mixture of two log-normal
>> distributions does not get truncated? What puzzles me is that the
>> function works almost always, but for certain combinations (like the
>> one below), it does not.
>>
>> # R code example
>> library(distr)
>> mix<-UnivarMixingDistribution(Lnorm(3.2,0.5),Lnorm(5.4,0.6),mixCoeff=c(0.3,0.7))
>>
>> mix.trunc<-Truncate(mix,lower=0.001,upper=3000)
>> distr.sample<-r(mix.trunc)(1000000)
>> range(distr.sample)
>>
>> Why do I get values over 3000 (which was the defoned upper limit)?
>>
>> Some help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Some question for the author of package distr, I believe.
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 

seconded, Uwe, and settled off-line
[BTW was an issue of the globally set accuracy].

Best, Peter (one of the authors of distr)