On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, Microsoft doesn't publish the code for their RNG. Naming > it is not enough -- implementations that differ in subtle details will give > different streams. Sometimes these subtle software differences are known by another name - "bugs". > So I'd recommend that you call a known RNG from .NET, rather than whatever > is built in. R provides ways to call its RNGs from C, so it's probably > possible to call it from .NET: then you can be sure the two streams are > identical. The chatter on the .net site makes me think you'll be very lucky to get the same numbers out of R as .Net - Microsoft say its a 'modified' version of a Knuth algorithm (only MS would be so arrogant) and then there's a bunch of MS programmers complaining about things not working. Use with care... Barry ______________________________________________ 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.
