Thanks to all who replied to my query about the "normality" of rnorm.
I am
using R 1.1.1 (the version released last week) under Windows 98. It has
been unusually hot here and I noticed that the CPU fan seemed to be running
at high speed for a long time. The CPU probe that I use to monitor the
temperature emitted a warning shortly after I sent off the email. After
shutting my system down, letting it cool, and then rebooting, all seems
well with rnorm. Since I have seen some pretty weird results with Excel
whenever the CPU overheated, I am assuming I just encountered a similar
phenomenon while running R.
[These new laptops running low voltage mobile PIII CPU's still run super
hot]
==================================================Dr. Marc R. Feldesman
Professor and Chair
Anthropology Department
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon 97207
email: feldesmanm at pdx.edu
http://odin.pdx.edu/~h1mf
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