NEWS

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randtoolbox 2.0.6

• new devel version

randtoolbox 2.0.5 (2024-10-18)

• add README NOTE FIX
• issues in man page auxfun.Rd
• missing package perpage in vignettes

randtoolbox 2.0.4 (2023-01-28)

• remove gcc check in configure.ac file generating config files (follow guideline of r-exts).
• remove useless autoconf macro and simplifies configure.ac. WARNING FIX
• remove sscanf in favor of strtoul or strtoull or _strtoui64 for set.generator().
• remove sprintf in favor of a dedicated ulltostr for get.description().

randtoolbox 2.0.3 (2022-11-08)

• re-enable the use of set.generator(name="congruRand",...).
• remove almost all URL and/or replace by DOI or text. WARNING FIX
• remove the following warning in some C functions: a function declaration without a prototype is deprecated in all versions of C [-Wstrict-prototypes] BUG FIX
• correct the dimnames of sobol() outputs, reported by Arnald Puy.

randtoolbox 2.0.2 (2022-08-16)

NOTE FIX

• remove an escaped LaTeX special in pseudoRNG.Rd.
• remove math rendering problems for Stirling numbers in

colltest.Rd and colltestsparse.Rd

randtoolbox 2.0.1 (2022-06-09)

BUG FIX

• two errors appearing in USBAN memory tests. Previous output

when re-building fullpres.Rnw was

LowDiscrepancy-sobol-orig1111.c:1418:32: runtime error:

left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int

LowDiscrepancy-sobol-orig1111.c:1440:57: runtime error:

randtoolbox 2.0.0 (2022-05-23)

• remove Fortran code for Halton and Sobol sequences (the latter was under the ACM licence).
• scrambling for Sobol sequences is temporarily disabled: the Fortran version of Sobol sequences can be found on R-forge in randsobolfortran package.

randtoolbox 1.31.2

• last version with both Fortran and C code (never released on CRAN).

randtoolbox 1.31.1 (2021-10-30)

BUG FIX

• clean up test files because tests/test-sobol-scram.R failed

on i386-pc-solaris2.10 (32-bit). Output was

• > umat <- sobol(n=1e5, dim=1111) Error: cannot allocate vector of size 423.8 Mb

randtoolbox 1.31.0 (2021-10-27)

NEW FEATURES

• add new test files.
• increase argument checks in QRNG.
• allows to start QRNG from 0, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08051 by Art Owen,

a warning is not raised when start != 0

• update vignettes.

WARNING FIXES

• fix warnings of autoconf for configure files showed by > autoreconf --warnings=obsolete (previous output was)

configure.ac:310: warning: The macro ‘AC_TRY_COMPILE’ is obsolete

configure.ac:310: warning: The macro ‘AC_TRY_RUN’ is obsolete

configure.ac:310: warning: The macro ‘AC_FD_MSG’ is obsolete

configure.ac:321: warning: The macro ‘AC_CONFIG_HEADER’ is obsolete

• fix invalid URLs (from http to https)

BUG FIX

• correctly generate a seed for Sobol mixed sequences.

randtoolbox 1.30.1 (2020-01-31)

• update the man page for quasi random sequences.
• allow the use of randomized seed for Sobol sequences (either from scrambling argument or mixed argument). BUGS FIX
• bug fixes on array limit issues in Fortran code (in INITSOBOL).
• warning fix on unused variable in Fortran code (in SGENSCRMU).
• bug fixes on multiple defintion issues (for WELL_get_set_entry_point, WELLrng, setSeed4WELL) in C header files, thanks to Brian Ripley.
• scrambling = 1, 3 for Sobol sequences may generate 0.0, so randomizing the seed is performed in that case.

randtoolbox 1.30.0 (2019-04-21)

• disable the use of set.generator(name="congruRand",...).
• clean up C code.

randtoolbox 1.20

• translate Fortran code of Diethelm Wuertz for Halton sequence into C.
• by default halton() use the C code slightly faster than the Fortran code.
• start to translate Fortran code of Diethelm Wuertz for Sobol sequence into C.
• add defensive programming for QMC. BUGS FIX
• scrambling = 1, 3 for Sobol sequences (provided by Makoto Matsumoto and Mutsuo Saito).
• mixed = TRUE for QMC sequences.
• correct use of 64-bit integer type
• correct failures in if statements (length > 1 in coercion to logical) in quasiRNG.R and pseudoRNG.R NOTE FIX
• usage of R_useDynamicSymbols to preclude compilation NOTEs, better registration of native routines and reduced symbol visibility.

randtoolbox 1.17 (2015-07-30)

• change DESCRIPTION file.
• update NAMESPACE for R 3.3.0.
• update the LICENSE file.
• raise a warning when scrambling for Sobol sequences is incorrect. BUG REPORT (by Dan Souther, Kemal Dincer Dingec, Marius Hofert, Nicolas Chopin, Andrei Kostyrka)
• scrambling = 1, 3 for Sobol sequences. (by Hiroyuki Kawakatsu)
• mixed = TRUE for QMC sequences.

randtoolbox 1.16 (2014-12-05)

• change title and other minor things in vignettes.

randtoolbox 1.15 (2014-07-24)

• remove the use of 'long long' in some C code.
• update LICENCE file.
• move autoconf files to tools directory.
• no longer use a4 paper format in vignette.

randtoolbox 1.14 (2013-06-11)

• change licence from BSD_2_clause to BSD_3_clause.
• minor change.

randtoolbox 1.13 (2013-04-03)

• this version is one of the last versions working with package rngWELL >= 0.11-0.
• change licence from BSD to BSD_2_clause. NOTE FIX
• remove NOTES appearing in R CMD check.

randtoolbox 1.12 (2012-04-28)

NEW FEATURES

• add new test files.
• increase the possible dimension of Halton sequences.

WARNING FIX in Fortran files

• remove an array over-run (reported by Brian Ripley) and tab

characters in LowDiscrepancy.f

randtoolbox 1.11 (2012-01-15)

• this version is one of the last versions working with package rngWELL == 0.10-x. NOTES FIXES
• this version use packageStartupMessage function for the .onAttach rather than the cat function.
• remove a printf in KnuthTAOCP2002.c WARNING FIXES in C files
• remove warnings with Wall and pedantic gcc options. For this purpose, files randtoolbox/src/Makevars and rngWELL/src/Makevars now contain a line, uncommenting which includes Wall and pedantic. See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2008-August/005251.html BUG FIX
• the package crashes when the dimension was 0 in RNG functions, reported by David LeBauer.

randtoolbox 1.10 (2012-01-14)

NEW FEATURES

• update the man page pseudoRNG.Rd and quasiRNG.Rd with MT19937

and other minor improvements

• on loading, the package print the overview man page.

WARNING FIXES

• fix some warnings following the release of R 2.13.0:

the Makefile and the man page of runifInterface

• fix a warning in the MT19937 file.

BUG FIX

• remove implicit type declaration in the LowDiscrepancy fortran file,

which causes errors with GCC 4.6 compilers

randtoolbox 1.09 (2009-12-11)

NEW FEATURES

• start runif interface for congruential generator and WELL RNG,
• vignette contains two chapters,
• start to test true randomness (not included in this version),
• increase the speed and accuracy of Halton and Sobol sequences.

STRUCTURAL CHANGE

• Before version 1.09, there was a lot of different (and incompatible)

licences in this package, namely, GPL, BSD, public domain, etc...

• (cf. 1.08-version DESCRIPTION file of this package). - From 1.09, all this code of this package is under the new BSD licence.

A copy of the BSD licence is available at

https://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

• extract Pierre L'Ecuyer's code from randtoolbox and

put it in a dedicated package rngWELL

• depends now on rngWELL.

AUTHORS

• all the code of this package except the ones listed below was written by Yohan Chalabi,

Christophe Dutang, Petr Savicky and Diethelm Wuertz

• the code for SF-Mersenne Twister belongs to M. Matsumoto and M. Saito,

which is under the new BSD licence.

• the code for Knuth-TAOCP-2002 generator belongs to D. E. Knuth.

This code is in the public domain and freely copyable

BUG FIX

• normal transformation of Halton and Sobol sequences is correct.

BUG REPORT

• Halton and Sobol sequences did not work on 64bit architecture when

using normal transformation reported by Anirban Mukherjee

• Sobol sequences for dimension > 2 need to be tested.

randtoolbox 1.08

NEW FEATURES

• add function get.primes,
• table of primes moved from randtoolbox.c to primes.h and compressed by storing half difference from the previous prime instead of each prime (except for 2 and 3),
• start runifinterface.

randtoolbox 1.07 (2009-02-15)

NEW FEATURES

• integrate code for Halton, Sobol sequence from fBasics (Rmetrics),
• randoolbox is now part of Rmetrics project (available on R-forge),
• increase the speed of congruRand.

BUG FIXES

• fix setSeed function,
• a warning shows up on 64 bit architecture.

BUG REPORT

• setting the seed with WELL's RNGs was not correct,

reported by Petr Savicky

randtoolbox 1.06 (2009-02-08)

BUG FIX

• the degree of freedom is now correct for the order test.

BUG REPORT

• Astley Lin reports that the degree-of-freedom(df) of

chi-square test is wrong for the order test

randtoolbox 1.05 (2008-11-03)

NEW FEATURES

• add new WELL generators based on L'Ecuyer's code,
• add the Sobol and Halton sequences from fOptions package.

BUG FIX

• it compiles on 64bit linux both on CRAN and R-forge.

randtoolbox 1.04 (2008-09-03)

BUG REPORT

• the package does not compil on Fedora 8 x86_64 boxes,

reported by Brian Ripley

randtoolbox 1.03 (2008-08-30)

NEW FEATURES

• add the WELL generator thanks to the code of P. L'Ecuyer,
• SFMT now allows for different mersenne exponents as well as parameter sets,
• increase the possible dimension for Torus algorithm from 1000 to 100 000,
• add the RAN_ARRAY generator of Knuth TAOCP (2002),
• the function setRandSeed has be renamed by setSeed,
• update the vignette.

randtoolbox 1.02 (2008-07-27)

NEW FEATURES

• more random generation tests such as collision test and order test,
• poker test is generalized to any dimension,
• some auxiliary functions,
• a detailed vignette on generating and testing random generation.

BUG FIXES

• on windows, when the seed was not fixed by the user, we use the machine

time. But we use only seconds of machine time not micro second like on

unix-like system. Hence a call like this

• > for(i in 1:10) print(congruRand(1))

produces the same output. Now it is fixed

randtoolbox 1.01

NEW FEATURES

• add withtorus option for SFMT function,
• improve output of tests.

randtoolbox 1.00 (2008-05-22)

• Initial release based on the torus package (which is no longer available).