Re: [Rd] user supplied random number generators

2009-08-18 Thread Petr Savicky
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:25:57PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Seeding by a vector is also available in the initialization of Mersenne Twister from 2002. See mt19937ar.c (ar for array) at http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html Unfortunately, seeding by a vector is not

Re: [Rd] user supplied random number generators

2009-08-18 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 21:24 +0200, Petr Savicky wrote: Dear Ross Boylan: Some time ago, you sent an email to R-devel with the following. I got into this because I'm trying to extend the rsprng code; sprng returns its state as a vector of bytes. Converting these to a vector of integers

[Rd] user supplied random number generators

2009-07-30 Thread Ross Boylan
?Random.user says (in svn trunk) Optionally, functions \code{user_unif_nseed} and \code{user_unif_seedloc} can be supplied which are called with no arguments and should return pointers to the number of seeds and to an integer array of seeds. Calls to \code{GetRNGstate} and

Re: [Rd] user supplied random number generators

2009-07-30 Thread Christophe Dutang
Hello, Le 30 juil. 09 à 08:21, Ross Boylan a écrit : ?Random.user says (in svn trunk) Optionally, functions \code{user_unif_nseed} and \code{user_unif_seedloc} can be supplied which are called with no arguments and should return pointers to the number of seeds and to an integer array of

Re: [Rd] user supplied random number generators

2009-07-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 12:32 +0200, Christophe Dutang wrote: This suggests that the type of user_unif_seedloc is Int32*, not int *. It also suggests that user_unif_nseed should return the number of 32 bit integers. The code for PutRNGstate(), for example, uses them in just that way.

Re: [Rd] user supplied random number generators

2009-07-30 Thread William Dunlap
tibco.com -Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ross Boylan Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:52 AM To: Christophe Dutang Cc: R-devel Subject: Re: [Rd] user supplied random number generators On Thu, 2009-07-30