RcppZiggurat

0.1.8

'Rcpp' Integration of Different "Ziggurat" Normal RNG Implementations

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55.5Kdownloads / year

45.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelFirst published 2013-10-0610 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The Ziggurat generator for normally distributed random numbers, originally proposed by Marsaglia and Tsang (2000, doi:10.18637/jss.v005.i08) has been improved upon a few times starting with Leong et al (2005, doi:10.18637/jss.v012.i07). This package provides an aggregation in order to compare different implementations in order to provide a 'faster but good enough' alternative for use with R and C++ code. See the 'zigg' package for a lighter implementation for much easier use in other packages.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)

install.packages("RcppZiggurat", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("eddelbuettel/rcppziggurat")

Development version from eddelbuettel/rcppziggurat. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-rcppziggurat

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-RcppZiggurat

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.50

45.8%

Coverage · measured lines

Dependencies · direct

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OK2026-04-22
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ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 291 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
References docs: 100%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ eddelbuettel/rcppziggurat

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212 commits · Last activity 2026-01-29

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (5)

Rcppparallelgraphicsstatsutils

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppGSL

Suggests (4)

rbenchmark microbenchmarklatticeggplot2

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none

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People & History

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Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Authors (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-10-06
Total releases: 10 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 288 KB
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