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2003 Dec 30
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Accuracy: Correct sums in rowSums(), colSums() (PR#6196)
...(), rowMeans() and
colMeans() in R1.5.0, function "SEXP do_colsum(SEXP call, SEXP op, SEXP args,
SEXP rho)" was added to perform the fast summations. We have an excellent
opportunity to improve the accuracy by implementing Kahan summation here.
Kahan summation is described in
@article{ goldberg91what,
author = "David Goldberg",
title = "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point
Arithmetic",
journal = "ACM Computing Surveys",
volume = "23",
number = "1",
pages = "5--48",
year = "1991...