[Rcpp-devel] Sample function(s) for inclusion in RcppArmadillo

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 14 November 2012 at 21:25, Christian Gunning wrote:
| 
| 
| On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| 
| 
|     Thank you, got both emails!  Will take a closer look -- we were busy with
|     releasing Rcpp 0.10.0 which will rock :)
| 
| 
| Sorry, I posted to list from wrong address; 0.10.0 looks great.  I found the
| copious informational links at the bottom of the announcement very helpful.
| 
| 
|     Would this make sense "upstream" in Armadillo? Or do you want the R RNG for
|     reproducibility?
| 
| 
| I hadn't even thought of trying to push this upstream, but yes, exact
| reproduction of R's behavior was a goal.
|  
| 
|     Also, you may need to add RNGScope() if you use R's RNG.
| 
| 
| 
| Yes, I should have mentioned that in my post.  Calling RNGScope() is left to
| the user, since multiple calls to sample() can conceivably happen inside a
| single RNGScope().

With that, maybe best to be included as another example in RcppArmadillo ?

Dirk

-- 
Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com