[R] cor function in R 1.8.0

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "mli" == mli  <mli at access4less.net>
>>>>>     on Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:53:40 -0400 writes:

    mli> Dear R users, Does anyone know why the following two
    mli> ways to calculate correlation variance give different
    mli> answers? I also obtain different answers when I use,
    mli> say, "spearman" method in cor(). The problem does not
    mli> happen in R 1.7.1 ("pearson" correlation only, of
    mli> course in R 1.7.1).


Problem confirmed --- a bug, clearly.
Thank you for your feedback!