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My dqrng package has some quite old issues, one is “More distribution functions” where I brought forward the idea to support additional …
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I have blogged about weighted sampling before. There I found that the stochastic acceptance method suggested by Lipowski and Lipowska …
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Currently the dqrng package supports only xoroshiro128+ and xoshiro256+ from https://prng.di.unimi.it/ (see also Blackman and Vigna …
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Today dqrng version 0.3.1 made it unto CRAN and is now propagating to the mirrors. Kyle Butts provided the implementation for the new …
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This morning swephR version 0.3.1 made it unto CRAN and is now propagating to the mirrors. The goal of swephR is to provide an R …
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In addition to other social media sites I wanted to enable sharing on Mastodon as well. The main difficulty is that as part of the …
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Yesterday tikzDevice version 0.12.4 made it unto CRAN and is now propagating to the mirrors. The tikzDevice package provides a graphics …
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There is a long standing issue with my {dqrng} package: weighted sampling. Since implementing fast un-weighted sampling methods quite …
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Today dqrng version 0.3.0 made it unto CRAN and is now propagating to the mirrors. This release contains a breaking change: The initial …
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This afternoon swephR version 0.3.0 made it unto CRAN and is now propagating to the mirrors. The goal of swephR is to provide an R …
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