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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 15 November 2012 at 04:00, Christian Gunning wrote:
|     |     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 ?
| 
| 
| Why?  The proposed behavior is the same as sugar's rnorm, etc.: a utility
| function that uses R's RNG -- it's the
| user's responsibility to properly scope the RNG. 

Fair point.
 
| When time permits, I'll add Romain's comments on sugarizing sample (which I
| *think* I understand), along with some testing code.

Excellent plan.

Dirk

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