[Rcpp-devel] Mersenne Twister in RcppArmadillo?

Darren Cook darren at dcook.org
Mon Feb 11 13:12:33 CET 2013


> While I'd like to incorporate a Mersenne-Twister random number
> generator directly in Armadillo, it would either add a dependency on
> Boost, or on C++11.  Boost might not be available on a user's system,
> and the degree of support for C++11...

I believe Boost.Random is header-only, and the boost license was
designed to be liberal. So embedding just the parts of Boost.Random that
you need in Armadillo is a possibility.

Darren

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