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vMF

Sampling from the von Mises-Fisher Distribution

v0.0.4 · Nov 9, 2025 · GPL-3

Description

Provides fast sampling from von Mises-Fisher distribution using the method proposed by Andrew T.A Wood (1994) <doi:10.1080/03610919408813161>.

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CRAN Check Status

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-macos-arm64 OK
r-release-macos-x86_64 OK
r-release-windows-x86_64 OK

Check History

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 21, 2026
ERROR 11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 11, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘vMF.Rmd’ using rmarkdown

Quitting from vMF.Rmd:105-115 [ex1]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<error/rlang_error>
Error in `library()`:
! there is no
...[truncated]...


Error: processing vignette 'vMF.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
there is no package called 'rbenchmark'
--- failed re-building ‘vMF.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘vMF.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building ‘vMF.Rmd’ using rmarkdown

Quitting from vMF.Rmd:105-115 [ex1]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<error/rlang_error>
Error in `library()`:
! there is no
...[truncated]...


Error: processing vignette 'vMF.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
there is no package called 'rbenchmark'
--- failed re-building ‘vMF.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘vMF.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 22, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 18, 2026
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

whether package can be installed

Installation failed.
See 'd:/Rcompile/CRANpkg/local/4.6/vMF.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies Rcpp vMF

Version History

5 tracked
new 0.0.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.0.4 ← 0.0.3 diff Nov 8, 2025
updated 0.0.3 ← 0.0.2 diff Mar 9, 2024
updated 0.0.2 ← 0.0.1 diff Aug 20, 2023
new 0.0.1 Nov 20, 2022