Re: [Rd] Rounding multinomial proportions

2010-02-11 Thread Arni Magnusson
Ugh, I made a typo at the very heart of my message: "when I preprocess each line in R as p<-a/sum(a), occasionally a line will sum to 0.999, 1.002, or the like" should be "when I preprocess each line in R as p<-round(a/sum(a),3) occasionally a line will sum to 0.999, 1.002, or the like" Al

[Rd] Rounding multinomial proportions

2010-02-11 Thread Arni Magnusson
I present you with a function that solves a problem that has bugged me for many years. I think the problem may be general enough to at least consider adding this function, or a revamped version of it, to the 'stats' package, with the other multinomial functions reside. I'm using R to export da