[R] Call to rgamma using .C causes R to hang

[Berwin A Turlach]

G'day Steve,

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:20:49 +0930
Steve Pederson <stephen.pederson at adelaide.edu.au> wrote:

I suggest to insert the following two lines (untested as I usually
don't work on Windows):
 
> # include <R.h>
> # include <Rmath.h>
> void test1 (double *x, double *result)
> {
	GetRNGstate();
>      result[0] = rgamma(*x, 2.0);
	PutRNGstate();
> }
> 

[...] 
> I'm running Windows XP & I followed the instructions at
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Windows-standalone
> after building R from source.

But you didn't follow the instructions of Section 6.3 in the "Writing R
Extensions manual. :)

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Random-numbers

HTH.

Cheers,

	Berwin

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