Re: [Rd] Interface for package supplied random number generator

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This really is not a good time for us (and apparently you've know about this for a year). Could you come back to it once 2.4.0 is released (due Oct 23)? [We are busy with getting R-devel ready for 2.4.0, and I think that other mechanisms for this have been mooted, again at a time which was

Re: [Rd] Interface for package supplied random number generator

2006-09-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: This really is not a good time for us (and apparently you've know about this for a year). Could you come back to it once 2.4.0 is released (due Oct 23)? Oops, a backspace failed: Oct 3. [We are busy with getting R-devel ready for 2.4.0, and

[Rd] Interface for package supplied random number generator

2006-08-31 Thread Josef Leydold
Hi, As you probably know, there is a problem with the interface for adding uniform random number generators in R (see by article in R News 5/2, November 2005). There exists a mechanism called user-supplied that allows users of R to run their own generator in R. However, there is no such mechanism