[R] minor quirk in rnbinom

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Fri Jun 14 18:25:51 CEST 2002


"Mike Lonergan" <mel at mcs.st-and.ac.uk> writes:

> I don't want to spoil a nice joke, and recognise it's not a bug as it does
> have the intended effect, but the error message that is returned if rnbinom
> is given four parameters is slightly obscure:
> 
> > rnbinom(0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5)
> Error in rnbinom(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5) : couldn't find function "error"
> >

That's a bug alright. Will fix for 1.5.1.

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