R help - Jun 2005 - Numerical accuracy

Hi people,

I need to prove the good quality of numerical accuracy of R. Anyone knows a
paper or anything else comparing R to other statistical softwares in terms of
numerical accuracy.
I've made a long search about that but I found nothing. Please help me!!

Thanx,

Talita Leite

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I do not know about details of numerical accuracy of R, it is probable
related to numerical accuracy of C compiler that was used to compile it (gcc
?). 
However I would like to mention that I run into some problems with accuracy
of sum and cumsum functions. See:  
   >   x = c(1, 1e20, 1e40, -1e40, -1e20, -1)
   >   sum(x)
   [1] -1e+20
   >   cumsum(x)
   [1]  1e+00  1e+20  1e+40  0e+00 -1e+20 -1e+20
And wrote functions (with help of R-Help list) to address the problem. See
sum.exact and cumsum.exact in caTools package:
  >   sum.exact(x)
  [1] 0
  >   cumsum.exact(x)
  [1] 1e+00 1e+20 1e+40 1e+20 1e+00 0e+00
 
Jarek
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Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:57 AM
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Subject: [R] Numerical accuracy

Hi people,

I need to prove the good quality of numerical accuracy of R. Anyone knows a
paper or anything else comparing R to other statistical softwares in terms
of numerical accuracy.
I've made a long search about that but I found nothing. Please help me!!

Thanx,

Talita Leite

-------------------------------------------------
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IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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The following might be helpful.

Statistical Reference Datasets (StRD) website 
http://www.nist.gov/itl/div898/strd

  http://www.amstat.org/publications/tas/mccull-1.pdf
  http://www.amstat.org/publications/tas/mccull.pdf

-Don

At 11:57 AM -0300 6/27/05, Talita Perciano Costa Leite
wrote:
>Hi people,
>
>I need to prove the good quality of numerical accuracy of R. Anyone knows a
>paper or anything else comparing R to other statistical softwares in terms
of
>numerical accuracy.
>I've made a long search about that but I found nothing. Please help me!!
>
>Thanx,
>
>Talita Leite
>
>-------------------------------------------------
>Este e-mail foi enviado pelo Webmail da UFAL
>IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
>
>______________________________________________
>R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
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>PLEASE do read the posting guide!
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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