Hello all,

It appears that the Sobol and Halton sequences implemented in fOptions
(formerly fBasics) are still used by other Rmetrics packages. In particular,
in Debian, randtoolbox is not ported, therefore using fBasics implementation
is necessary.

Tell me if I'm wrong, but one issue with the randtoolbox package is that it
depends on a non GPL package rngWELL.

After a long discussion with Petr Savicky (co-developper), we plan to split
the randtoolbox into smaller R packages. One of them will be quasiRNG
containing only the quasi random sequences. Useless to say that quasiRNG
will not depend on any packages.

In a such framework, will you be interested to use this package? rather than
the fOptions implementation of Sobol and Halton?

Note that the quasiRNG will be a significantly lighter since it will not
have a vignette and other pseudo RNGs.

Kind regards

Christophe


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Christophe DUTANG
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Date: 2011/6/7
Subject: Re: fOptions no longer builds: Fortran error
To: Christophe Dutang <dutangc@gmail.com>
Cc: Yohan Chalabi <chalabi@phys.ethz.ch>, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>,
rmetrics-core <rmetrics-core@r-project.org>



On 7 June 2011 at 20:35, Christophe Dutang wrote:
| why?

Because the vast number of the 3000+ CRAN packages are not in Debian.

That said, I do agree with your general sentiment that Depends: is better
than hidden copies, but that is a lesson the Rmetrics team appears to have
learned as well.

But converting all the existing code is a) no small task and b) may have
side
effects (as eg I may well decide against maintaining more CRAN packages
inside Debian given my current 120+ packages).

Dirk

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Christophe DUTANG
Ph. D. student at ISFA, Lyon, France

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