On 02/01/2009 4:16 PM, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
On 02/01/2009 2:45 PM, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
...So I'd think that either runif should give full precision or
its documentation should mention this limitation.
It refers to the .Random.seed page for details, and that page mentions the
limitation to at most 2^32 different values for most of the generators.
Indeed it does -- thanks for the pointer! I still think it would be
helpful to the user to mention the limitation in the individual
r<dist> doc pages, as not many users are likely to work through the
very complete RNG doc page.
I don't agree. If you add too much technical detail to a topic, then
people don't "work through it". I'd say the r<dist> pages generally
give enough detail now, but not too much. If you add every detail that
might interest someone somewhere, then they'd all be hard to read.
Duncan Murdoch
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