From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Feb 24 18:40:17 2000
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:40:17 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] RNG usability
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> Brian
> 
> Interesting. I never thought of the normal generator compensating for
> deficiencies in the uniform. Thanks.
> 
> Paul
> 
> P.S. (Still please add "user-supplied" as an optional normal.kind in 1.1 if
> possible. I would like to be able to run my old tests without my library taking
> over parts of R base.)

Yes, I have it on the list.  (As you may appreciate, 1.0.0 on 29 Feb is
rather higher up!)  Depending how easy it is, it may make 1.0.x.

Brian


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[Rd] RNG usability
Prof Brian D Ripley