From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Feb 28 17:10:58 2000
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:10:58 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] normal kind reset by runif
In-Reply-To: <38BA9BF6.4A25BD4A@bank-banque-canada.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10002281710340.27728-100000@toucan.stats>

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> Brian
> 
> There seems to be a problem in 0.99.0a with the normal kind being reset:
> 
> >RNGkind("Wichmann-Hill", normal.kind="Box-Muller")
> >RNGkind()
> [1] "Wichmann-Hill"  "Box-Muller"
> >runif(1)
> [1] 0.4776541
> >RNGkind()
> [1] "Wichmann-Hill"  "Kinderman-Ramage"

Yes, known and fixed already.

Brian


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[Rd] normal kind reset by runif
Prof Brian Ripley