It sounds like you are using 'integers'. Have you considered 'numeric' (floating point)? You can always look at the function 'samlmu' to see what it does in this case.
On 9/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In the package POT, there is a function that computes the L-moments of a > given sample (samlmu). However, to compute those L-moments, one needs to > obtain the total number of combinations between two numbers, which, by the > way, requires the use of a factorial. See, for example, Hosking (1990 , p. > 113). > > How does the function "samlmu" in the package POT avoids overflows? > > I was trying to build from scratch a R function similar to "samlmu" and ran > into overflows (Just for my educational purposes :o) ). Is there a trick that > I am missing to avoid overflows in the factorial function? > > Thank you very much for your time. > > Pedro N. Rodriguez > SSRN Homepage: http://ssrn.com/author=412141/ > Homepage: http://www.pnrodriguez.com/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
