[Rd] Generate random numbers in Fortran

[Ben Bolker]

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