[R-pkg-devel] CRAN pretest archived because of 2 NOTEs

[Gertjan van den Burg]

Thanks for your comment. Your suggestion wouldn't solve my original 
problem unfortunately, because then I'd have to reverse engineer R's RNG 
for my Python package. Besides, the quality of the random numbers 
doesn't really matter here, it only matters that they're the same across 
my packages.

Gertjan

On 04/18/2018 08:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 18 April 2018 at 11:36, Gertjan van den Burg wrote:
> | While waiting to get this message posted to the list, I've solved the
> | problem by copying the stdlib rand() and srand() functions into my
> | package under a different name. This makes the check pass and ensures my
> | RNG does not interfere with R's RNG.
>
> I recommend against that. The check, while dated, is valid because many (old)
> implementations of rand and srand were of (now known) poor quality.
>
> You have R, you should use its RNGs. Your users may expect that. Accessing eg
> runif is easy and documented, and we can trust the RNG behind it.
>
> Dirk
>