I was not able to reproduce the behavior reported in my message below. I was trying it on the same laptop in the same workspace using again R 2.0.0, but the low counts of 4 to 7 (witnesses by some of my colleagues) did not show up again. Please do not spend any more effort on this.
>I am wondering whether there is a bug in rnorm. >When generating rnorm(1000000) and counting >the cases > 4 and the cases < (-4) I get rather >unexpectedly low counts for the latter. The problem goes away >when using qnorm(runif(1000000)). Fritz Scholz, PhD Applied Statistics Group Boeing Phantom Works [EMAIL PROTECTED] 425-865-3623 Tu/We 206-542-6545 (most likely) ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html