R help - Dec 2008 - calculating large factorials

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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Use lfactorial to calculate log factorial.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:55 PM,  <rfulton at stats.gla.ac.uk>
wrote:
>
>
> 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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> The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401
>
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