On 10 Mar 2016, at 12:47 , m.van_iter...@lumc.nl wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I have a questions regarding using the c function rmultinom.c.
> 
> I got the following error message "rbinom: probability sum should be 1, but 
> is 0.999264"
> 
> Which is thrown by:
> 
> if(fabs((double)(p_tot - 1.)) > 1e-7)
> MATHLIB_ERROR(_("rbinom: probability sum should be 1, but is %g"),
> (double) p_tot);
> 
> I understand my probabilities do not sum to one close enough. I tried the 
> following,
> p[2] = 1. - p[0] - p[1],  where 'p', are the probabilities but this is not 
> sufficient to pass the error message!
> 


p[0] ????


> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> Maarten
> 
> (I don't think this is an issue with versions but I used R version 3.2.3 and 
> can provide more details on my linux build if necessary.)
> 
> 
> 
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