Brian, On 29 December 2007 at 17:03, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > | > On 27 December 2007 at 12:08, bogdan romocea wrote: | > | > require(tseries) | > | > ?runs.test | > | Also, take a look at dieharder, it implements a large number of | > | randomness tests: | > | http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php | > | > Also note that CRAN has an RDieHarder package that provides access to | > DieHarder tests from R. RDieHarder is currently happier on Linux than on | > Windows. If anybody wants to contribute build instructions for Windows ... | | It's not easy on Linux! There is a src/Makefile that ignores most of the | info from how R was built, including CC, CFLAGS andlibrary pats such as | /usr/local/lib64.
Ack, that needs fixing for amd64 etc. The rest worked for us... | And that's if you can get dieharder built: it gave me | lots of errors before succeeding. FWIW, Robert, DieHarder's principal author (CC'ed), works on a Fedora system, and we know of successful ports to (at least) BSD. So unless you tell us how it fails there is little we can do. | I managed to build from the SRPM, but | that installed with the include files without read permissions. | | But I've succeeded on Windows, Excellent! I had one quick look a few month ago on my MinGW setup at work and ... didn't have enough (and interest) to make it work. But having a working RDieHarder on Windows would be very useful, so thanks! | and RDieHarder is now in the CRANextras | collection (and so can be installed from the menus etc). I'll send Dirk | separately notes on what I had to do to make it work. I look forward to receiving those. We also got patches from Anton Korobeynikov (CC'ed) for building DieHarder on Windoze but I haven't had time to look at those. Thanks, Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
