Dear Berend, thank you for your kind response. You are right, and I am blind. I will use the R RNG instead.
Kind regards, j. On 2 November 2014 12:40, Berend Hasselman <b...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On 02-11-2014, at 12:20, January Weiner <january.wei...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am building a package that makes a simple visualization. A part of >> the code is in C++, and utilizes the functions srand() and rand() for >> purposes not related to statistics (introducing random noise in the >> visualization). The package compiles without problems on my >> workstation(s), but when I submitted it to the winbuilder service, I >> got the following weird message: >> >> * checking compiled code ... NOTE >> File 'tagcloud/libs/i386/tagcloud.dll': >> Found 'rand', possibly from 'rand' (C) >> Object: 'overlap.o' >> Found 'srand', possibly from 'srand' (C) >> Object: 'overlap.o' >> File 'tagcloud/libs/x64/tagcloud.dll': >> Found 'rand', possibly from 'rand' (C) >> Object: 'overlap.o' >> Found 'srand', possibly from 'srand' (C) >> Object: 'overlap.o' >> >> Compiled code should not call entry points which might terminate R nor >> write to stdout/stderr instead of to the console, nor the C RNG. >> >> To the best of my knowledge, I don't see where in the code I "call >> entry points which might terminate R" or "write to stdout/stderr", but >> then, if I remove the calls to rand/srand, this message disappears. >> > > Which version of R on your workstation? > Your code should also not call the C RNG (rand and srand) as the message > clearly states. > > Berend > >> You can review the package her:e >> http://win-builder.r-project.org/toy6frr57aCU/ >> >> Kind regards, >> >> January >> >> -- >> -------- January Weiner -------------------------------------- >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- -------- January Weiner -------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
