Re: [Rd] sources of code; was Generate random numbers in Fortran

2009-02-15 Thread John Nolan
t.org From: nas...@uottawa.ca Sent by: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org Date: 02/15/2009 12:35PM Subject: Re: [Rd] sources of code; was Generate random numbers in Fortran Ben Bolker gives some reasons why Numerical Recipes may be problematic as a starting point for R codes. CUP did a masterful job of

Re: [Rd] sources of code; was Generate random numbers in Fortran

2009-02-15 Thread nashjc
Ben Bolker gives some reasons why Numerical Recipes may be problematic as a starting point for R codes. CUP did a masterful job of marketing, but the license is restrictive as the links he gives points out. In some tests, I've also noted that some of the algorithms are less than stellar e.g, conver