[Rd] Generating Lognormal Random variables (PR#6843)

[Thomas Lumley]

On Sat, 1 May 2004 dmurdoch at pair.com wrote:

> On Sat,  1 May 2004 17:00:28 +0200 (CEST), anthony at stat.sdu.dk wrote:
>
> >Full_Name: Anthony Gichangi
> >Version: 1.90
> >OS: Windows XP Pro
> >Submission from: (NULL) (130.225.131.206)
> >
> >
> >The function rlnorm generates negative values for lognormal distribution.
> >
> >x- rlnorm(1000, meanlog =  0.6931472, sdlog = 1)
>
> It doesn't for me, and the line you typed above makes it look like
> you're subtracting lognormals from x.
>

It would be very strange if it were producing negative numbers, as it does
it by exponentiating normals.

	-thomas