Strange means of numbers drawn from rpois (PR#729)

Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil.kjernsmo@astro.uio.no> writes:

On 8 Nov 2000, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

I'm not at all happy with this:

Solaris :

range(sapply(1:2000, function(n) mean(rpois(10000, 15.0))))

[1] 15.0524 15.3403

I get

range(sapply(1:2000, function(n) mean(rpois(10000, 15.0))))

[1] 14.3702 14.6212

on SuSE Linux 4.3

hothorn@artemis:~ > gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)

Torsten

Version:
 platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
 arch = i686
 os = linux-gnu
 system = i686, linux-gnu
 status =
 major = 1
 minor = 1.1
 year = 2000
 month = August
 day = 15
 language = R

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