Re: [Rd] Calling C implementations of rnorm and friends

2016-07-01 Thread Luis Usier
Gabriel, That's exactly what I have been doing, and it works fine. However, I just wanted to *understand* how the random numbers are generated, for no other reason than to satiate my curiosity. The one thing that's not very elegant about this way of doing things is that I have to hard-code specia

Re: [Rd] [R-Forge] R-forge down ?

2016-07-01 Thread Spencer Graves
Thanks. I appreciate all you do to keep it working. Spencer Graves On 7/1/2016 11:19 AM, Martin Pacala wrote: Yeah, it was meant to be a very short downtime, but then the server had a problem with booting which prolonged the process. It's back up again On 07/01/2016 06:03 PM, Martin Maechl

Re: [Rd] [R-Forge] R-forge down ?

2016-07-01 Thread Martin Pacala
Yeah, it was meant to be a very short downtime, but then the server had a problem with booting which prolonged the process. It's back up again On 07/01/2016 06:03 PM, Martin Maechler wrote: It looks to me that R-forge has been down for at least two hours now... _

Re: [Rd] Calling C implementations of rnorm and friends

2016-07-01 Thread Gabriel Becker
Well, For this particular use case why not just transform the parameters at the R level and then call the existing function? Is there not a closed form mapping? ~G On Jul 1, 2016 2:50 PM, "Joshua Ulrich" wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Luis Usier > wrote: > > Gabriel, > > > > Thanks f

Re: [Rd] Calling C implementations of rnorm and friends

2016-07-01 Thread Joshua Ulrich
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Luis Usier wrote: > Gabriel, > > Thanks for that! I guess I really should have figured that one out sooner, > huh? > > I understand why that wouldn't be CRAN-compliant. But then, what *is* the > proper way to do it? Is there any way I can call unexported functions f

Re: [Rd] R-forge down ?

2016-07-01 Thread Spencer Graves
I've experienced multiple outages that last for days on R-Forge in recent years. Eventually, I write to r-fo...@r-project.org, and they get it restarted. R-Forge is a great service, and I don't wish to complain, especially since I'm not paying for it. Several times I've offered

[Rd] R-forge down ?

2016-07-01 Thread Martin Maechler
It looks to me that R-forge has been down for at least two hours now... __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] Calling C implementations of rnorm and friends

2016-07-01 Thread Luis Usier
Gabriel, Thanks for that! I guess I really should have figured that one out sooner, huh? I understand why that wouldn't be CRAN-compliant. But then, what *is* the proper way to do it? Is there any way I can call unexported functions from another package and have it accepted by CRAN? Also, if I i