[R] R's RNG produced garbage when called from f77 (Irix)

[Liaw, Andy]

Dear R-help,

I've managed to crash R on Irix when I called a Fortran subroutine that
calls R's random number generator, as described in Section 5.6 of the R-exts
manual.  (It does say in that section that this is not guaranteed to be
portable...)  (Well, R doesn't crash when calling the RNG.  It crashed when
the random number generated isn't inside the unit interval.)

Can anyone explain why the RNG doesn't return values within (0, 1), or, even
better, how to get around this problem?  I'll be very, very grateful!

BTW, this might be the reason why my randomForest package fail to run on
some systems...

The system is:

Version:
 platform = mips-sgi-irix6.5
 arch = mips
 os = irix6.5
 system = mips, irix6.5
 status =
 major = 1
 minor = 5.0
 year = 2002
 month = 04
 day = 29
 language = R

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base

Cheers,
Andy


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