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Hi all, why factorial(150) shows the error out of range in 'gammafn'? I have to calculate the number of subset formed by 150 samples taking 10 at a time. How is this possible? best [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

The following seems very strange: > lgamma(-0.04) [1] 3.243307 > gamma(-0.04) [1] -25.61830 Jim -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel 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:

Hi, I'm currently in the process of writing an R-installation SOP for my company. As part of that process I'm using the recommendations from the 'R Installation and Administration' document, section 3.2, "Testing an installation". This is done on an XP machine, using the latest binary of 2.11.0. The binary is downloaded and then installed from the installer. I then

Dear R users, I have to calculate gamma functions for negative numbers beyond -171.4. e.x. gamma(-500.4) I got following: > gamma(-170.4) [1] -5.824625e-308 > gamma(-171.4) [1] 0 Warning message: underflow occurred in 'gammafn' I have tried to use a recursion getting values a little futher -180. How could I solve this problem? Thank you beforehand. Chuse.

Dear R-users, Is there an R function to compute the multinomial beta function? That is, the normalizing constant that arises in a Dirichlet distribution. For example, with three parameters the beta function is Beta(n1,n2,n2) = Gamma(n1)*Gamma(n2)*Gamma(n3)/Gamma(n1+n2+n3) Thanks in advance for any assisstance. Regards, Greg [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I have to calculate some formula like: gamma(x)/(gamma(x+y) and I observed that for relatively big values of x, R returns infinity and so cannot compute the formula. Is it possible to force R to give the real value of gamma(x) instead of Inf ? thanks

I am trying to solve the integration equation, for different values of K from 4 to 25, the integration is with respect to u, Here is the equation: gamma(k/2) / ( sqrt(k-1)*gamma((k-1)/2) ) * integrate(f= (1+u^2/k-1)^(-k/2), lower=0, upper= sqrt(a^2*k/(k+1-a^2)) ) = the similar expression as te left hand except k becomes k+1 my code is below, I don't know why R keep telling me the syntax

Hi, I found the following on Windows 2000/NT R Version 1.9.1 (2004-06-21) (also Version 1.9.0): The S4 group "Math" doesn't work as documented; i.e., "log", "log10", "gamma" and "lgamma" are included in the documentation but don't work. See example code below. Moreover, what about 'genericForPrimitive' which is used in

Dear R users, i try to integrate lgamma from 0 to Inf. But here i get the message "roundoff error is detected in the extrapolation table", if i use 1.0e120 instead of Inf the computation works, but this is against the suggestion of integrates help information to use Inf explicitly. Using stirlings approximation doesnt bring the solution too. ## Stirlings approximation lgammaApprox

Hi - I ran into a problem when the argument to gamma function is large. Says, if I do the following: > gamma(17000) [1] Inf Warning message: value out of range in 'gammafn' Is there anyway to get around this or other implementation? Thank you. -rc

Hello all, I was wondering if someone can enlighten me as to the difference between the logLik in R vis-a-vis Stata for a GLM model with the gamma family. Stata calculates the loglikelihood of the model as (in R notation) some equivalent function of -1/scale * sum(Y/mu+log(mu)+(scale-1)*log(Y)+log(scale)+scale*lgamma(1/scale)) where scale (or dispersion) = 1, Y = the response variable, and mu

lgamma(x) and lfactorial(x) are defined to return ln|Gamma(x)| {= log(abs(gamma(x)))} or ln|Gamma(x+1)| respectively. Unfortunately, we haven't chosen the analogous definition for lchoose(). So, currently > lchoose(1/2, 1:10) [1] -0.6931472 -2.0794415 NaN -3.2425924 NaN -3.8869494 [7] NaN -4.3357508 NaN -4.6805913 Warning message: In

I am looking for a method of dealing with the modified Bessel function K_\nu(x) for large \nu. The besselK function implementation of this allows for dealing with large values of x by allowing for exponential scaling, but there is no facility for dealing with large \nu. What would work for me would be an lbesselK function in the manner of lgamma which returned the log of K_\nu(x) for large

Dear R users: I wonder anyone is aware of such a thing from lgamma() > lgamma(-0.8) [1] 1.747207 I thought it should be NA as in S-PLUS. Both R-1.3.1 and R-1.5.1 report this result. I don't have the latest R-1.6.1 so I don't know whether this is corrected or not. Happy holidays, Paul.

> > >From: robert-mcfadden w o2.pl > > >Date: 2008/04/02 Wed AM 09:58:28 CDT > > >To: r-help w r-project.org > > >Subject: [R] Nonlinear equation > > > > hi: you need to give an example and details or > > you won't get much response, if any. Equation e.g. (A, B are known constants): 3log(gamma(x))-log(gamma(x)*gamma(2x))+(x-1)*A+B=0

Version 1.3.1 (2001-08-31) factorial() is not in R. It is in S-Plus with the definition factorial <- function(n) gamma(n + 1) -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not

Hello, I was wondering if the functions deriv3(), deriv() etc. could be extended to handle psigamma() and its special cases (digamma(), trigamma() etc.). From the error message it seems that 'psigamma' needs to be added to the derivatives table. This might be easy since psigamma() has a deriv argument. Additionally, this error message is also obtained when requesting for the Hessian of

Hello. This question concerns the Methods package. I have created a new class and am trying to set a method for it for S4 group generic "Summary". I have run into some signature problems. An example: > setClass("track", representation(x="numeric", y="character")) [1] "track" > setGeneric("max", group="Summary")

for example, when I am calculating a posterior density, I need to calculate gamma(75*3+5)=gamma(220) which is out of the bound of gamma function. what shall I do for this condition> Thank you [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I am just trying to teach myself how to use the mle function in R because it is much better than what is provided in MATLAB. I am following tutorial material from the internet, however, it gives the following errors, does anybody know what is happening to cause such errors, or does anybody know any better tutorial material on this particular subject. >