I don't want to spoil a nice joke, and recognise it's not a bug as it does have the intended effect, but the error message that is returned if rnbinom is given four parameters is slightly obscure:> rnbinom(0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5)Error in rnbinom(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5) : couldn't find function "error">Cheers, Mike. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
"Mike Lonergan" <mel at mcs.st-and.ac.uk> writes:> I don't want to spoil a nice joke, and recognise it's not a bug as it does > have the intended effect, but the error message that is returned if rnbinom > is given four parameters is slightly obscure: > > > rnbinom(0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5) > Error in rnbinom(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5) : couldn't find function "error" > >That's a bug alright. Will fix for 1.5.1. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Mike Lonergan wrote:> > I don't want to spoil a nice joke, and recognise it's not a bug as it does > have the intended effect, but the error message that is returned if rnbinom > is given four parameters is slightly obscure: > > > rnbinom(0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5) > Error in rnbinom(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5) : couldn't find function "error"That's a bug, of course error("prob and mu both specified") should be stop("prob and mu both specified") in that function. [R-1.5.0 patched 2002-06-12, WinNT4.0] Uwe Ligges -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._