[Rd] [External] Status of R_unif_index

Tierney, Luke |uke-t|erney @end|ng |rom u|ow@@edu
Thu Apr 4 21:54:05 CEST 2019


Seems reasonable, done now.

Best,

luke

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Ralf Stubner wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> section "6.3 Random number generation" of WRE [1] lists unif_rand(),
> norm_rand() and exp_rand() as the interface to R's RNG. Now
> R_ext/Random.h also has
>
>    double R_unif_index(double);
>
> Can this be also treated as an official API function that may be called
> from a package?
>
> Thanks
> Ralf
>
> [1]
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Random-numbers
>
>

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