R Observatory: Metrics for setRNG version 2024.2-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

setRNG

2024.2-1Package record

Set (Normal) Random Number Generator and Seed

3packages dependsuggested by 6

52.1Kdownloads / year

61.4%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul GilbertCRAN page ↗Website ↗

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. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Paul Gilbert <pgilbert.ttv9z@ncf.ca>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Paul",
                    family = "Gilbert",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "pgilbert.ttv9z@ncf.ca")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

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

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2024.2-1

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 5includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 75%3 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

52.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,023 · ~143/day · ~4.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.7K30 days

9K90 days

52.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on980 r2u3 autocran1.9K conda_forge237 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing setRNG adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.5.0

Imports (1)

stats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

2indirect

Depends 3

Suggested by 6

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

distrTEst distrSim distrEllipse

Suggests, most downloaded first

SQUAREM optimx BB momentuHMM turboEM orsk

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Paul Gilbert

Maintainer since 2004.3-1

Releases (9)

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R 2.3.0 released · 2006-04-24
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added 3 exports
setRNG, random.number.test, getRNG
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R 2.2.0 released · 2005-10-06
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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

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for setRNG version 2024.2-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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