R Observatory: Metrics for setRNG version 2024.2-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

setRNG

2024.2-1

Set (Normal) Random Number Generator and Seed

9packages depend

64.8Kdownloads / year

61.4%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul GilbertFirst published 2004-03-269 releasesCRAN page ↗

Provides utilities to help set and record the setting of the seed and the uniform and normal generators used when a random experiment is run. The utilities can be used in other functions that do random experiments to simplify recording and/or setting all the necessary information for reproducibility. See the vignette and reference manual for examples.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

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

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

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-setrng

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-setRNG

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

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

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-setRNG

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.02

61.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 75%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

64.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,869 · ~178/day · ~5.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.4K30 days

11.6K90 days

64.8K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.5.0

Imports (1)

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

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Listed in earlier versions (1)

Paul Gilbert

no longer listed · 2004.3-1 to 2024.2-1

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2004-03-26
Total releases: 9 / 22 yrs
License: GPL-2 | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.5.0
Download size: 37 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for setRNG version 2024.2-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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