On 13-Dec-05 Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On 13-Dec-05 Uwe Ligges wrote: >>> Davia Cox wrote: >>> [...] >>>> My question is in order to run a true random sample, >>> >>> We have to disappoint you: Your computer cannot generate >>> "true random samples". >> >> At least on Linux (and probably most Unix) systems, >> /dev/random must be a pretty good approximation (provided >> you don't over-work it ... ). > > See > > library(accuracy) > ?trueRandom > > (for some definition of 'true').
Spot on! Thanks for this -- I wasn't aware of it previously. The URL to HotBits in ?trueRandom is worth following, and the descriptions in "How it Works": http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/how.html are entertaining reading. Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 13-Dec-05 Time: 16:47:37 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
