[R] unexpected behaviour of rnorm()

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Wed Nov 27 23:32:24 CET 2002


Ravi Varadhan <rvaradha at jhsph.edu> writes:

> Hi:
> 
> I am using R 1.5.1 on Windows, and the "Inversion" method for normal
> generator doesn't exist in the "RNGkind" function.
> 
> I only see the following options inside the function:
> 
> c("Kinderman-Ramage", "Ahrens-Dieter", "Box-Muller",
>         "user-supplied", "default")
> 
> Am I missing something?

An upgrade. The Inversion method was added in 1.6.0.

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