From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Mar 13 10:05:14 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:05:14 +0100 (MET)
Subject: [Rd] rbinom silently rounds size argument (PR#1377)
Message-ID: <200203131005.LAA23904@pubhealth.ku.dk>

Fixed for 1.5.0.  Note that pbinom and qbinom did it too.

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 bolker@zoo.ufl.edu wrote:

> rbinom (in R-1.4.1) silently rounds its "size" argument.
>   The C code contains
>
>     n = floor(nin + 0.5);
>
>   I would argue that this should this either be documented or changed (to
> return NA). (The behavior is inconsistent with dbinom).
>
>   I sent this in to the devel list a couple of weeks ago to
> provoke discussion; no disagreement (or agreement) so I'm
> submitting it as a bug.
>
>   Ben Bolker
>
> --please do not edit the information below--
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> Version:
>  platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
>  arch = i686
>  os = linux-gnu
>  system = i686, linux-gnu
>  status =
>  major = 1
>  minor = 4.1
>  year = 2002
>  month = 01
>  day = 30
>  language = R
>
> Search Path:
>  .GlobalEnv, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base
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[Rd] rbinom silently rounds size argument (PR#1377)
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