[R] strange error message when using rnorm and rbinom

[Bert Gunter]

Do not believe everything you read on the internet!

"In one of the resources I found in over the internet explains that the
mean and sd should be declared as integers."

That is compete crap.  The mean of a norma/Gaussian can be any real;
the sd can be any positive real.
Moreover, one does not need to "declare" R variables. Have you gone
through any R tutorials? -- there are many good ones on the web.
Please do so if you haven't before posting here.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:06 AM, JI Cho <ikycho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I have been using rnorm, rbinom and have been getting the following warning
> message when I do not have any NAs in my generated values.
>
> Warning messages:1: In rnorm(nref, mean = mu.m2[[k]], sd = sqrt(disp.m2[[k]])) :
>   NAs produced
>
>
> In one of the resources I found in over the internet explains that the
> mean and sd should be declared as integers. So I tried that which did
> not solve the issue.
>
>
> Can anyone advise me on how to eliminate the warning message?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
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