Re: [Rd] Replacing the Random Number Generator in Stand Alone Library

2013-10-16 Thread peter dalgaard
On Oct 16, 2013, at 02:41 , Nigel Delaney wrote: > Okay, so I am guessing everyone had the same response I initially did when > hearing that this RNG might not be so hot*... as an alternate question, if > I submitted a patch to replace the current RNG with the twister, would it be > accepted?

[Rd] Replacing the Random Number Generator in Stand Alone Library

2013-10-10 Thread Nigel Delaney
Hi R-Developers, I had a question about the random number generator used in the R StandAlone Math Library. The stand-alone library depends on the unif_rand() function for most simulated values, and this function is provided in the sunif.c file in the relevant directory. At present, this program