
A-228 R AS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE AND ENVIRONMENT
A.21 Distributions, Random Numbers, Densities. . .
The base generator for uniform random numbers is administered by Random. Several types of
generators are available as base generator. For serious simulation it is strongly recom-
mended to read the recommendations of Marsaglia et al. (see help(.Random.seed)).
All non-uniform random number generators are derived from the current base generator. A
survey of most important non-uniform random number generators, their distribution functions
and their quantiles is given at the end of this section.
R Random
Numbers
.Random.seed .Random.seed is a global variable ...