News for Package RcppZiggurat

Changes in version 0.1.2 (2013-12-28)

• Add a new generator deploying R's unif_rand which faciliates use of Ziggurat as the user-supplied generator for N(0,1)

• Update a 'local' demo comparing normal distribution RNGs from Boost, C++11 and Armadillo none of which are particularly speedy

• Add declaration to import a symbol from Rcpp to NAMESPACE to ensure proper instantiation with the upcoming Rcpp version

Changes in version 0.1.1 (2013-12-22)

• Set dependency on R (>= 3.0.0) needed by vignette builder

• Remove pdf files in vignette on cleanup to ensure rebuilds

Changes in version 0.1.0 (2013-12-21)

• Testing framework added with a standard RNG test, a new and similar test particular for Normal distributions, and the Chi^2 test from the Leong et al paper (JSS, 2005)

• New demo() functionality showing the three added tests.

• Code has been reorganized into separate headers implementing the generators, using a common (virtual) base class; and accessors and tests in the src/ directory.

• Two new ziggurat generators implementations have been adapted from, respectively, GNU Gretl and QuantLib

• Added a vignette

Changes in version 0.0.1 (2013-10-06)

• Initial basic package version, wrapping five different implementations