From bolker at ufl.edu  Sat Feb 14 22:05:01 2009
From: bolker at ufl.edu (Ben Bolker)
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:05:01 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Rd] Generate random numbers in Fortran
References: <81334.15708.qm@web59716.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
	<4995A84D.1020002@idi.ntnu.no>
	<loom.20090214T203642-925@post.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <loom.20090214T210406-748@post.gmane.org>

Ben Bolker <bolker <at> ufl.edu> writes:

> > vQ
> 
>   If one can get the R routines to work, I think they have some
> advantages over NAG and Numerical Recipes routines:
> 
>   * source code is freely redistributable
>   * I can't really claim expertise, but I believe there
> has been some controversy (see the wikipedia page on NR,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Recipes )
> 
>   The big advantage of NR is not in the algorithms, but
> in the explanations in the book ...
> 
>   (The wikipedia page also refers to the Gnu Scientific Library,
> which might be another set of options.)
> 
>   Ben Bolker
> 
> ______________________________________________


  PS (replying to myself) there's an eloquent criticism
of NR's licensing policies at
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~bjw/software/boycottnr.html
which articulates a lot of my complaints better than I could

  Ben



[Rd] Generate random numbers in Fortran
Ben Bolker