Fast Pseudo Random Number Generators R package dqrng version 0.4.1 CRAN Task View: Distributions (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Distributions) CRAN Task View: HighPerformanceComputing (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=HighPerformanceComputing) Several fast random number generators are provided as C++ header only libraries: The PCG family by O'Neill (2014 <https://www.cs.hmc.edu/tr/hmc-cs-2014-0905.pdf>) as well as the Xoroshiro / Xoshiro family by Blackman and Vigna (2021 <doi:10.1145/3460772>). In addition fast functions for generating random numbers according to a uniform, normal and exponential distribution are included. The latter two use the Ziggurat algorithm originally proposed by Marsaglia and Tsang (2000, <doi:10.18637/jss.v005.i08>). The fast sampling methods support unweighted sampling both with and without replacement. These functions are exported to R and as a C++ interface and are enabled for use with the default 64 bit generator from the PCG family, Xoroshiro128+/++/** and Xoshiro256+/++/** as well as the 64 bit version of the 20 rounds Threefry engine (Salmon et al., 2011, <doi:10.1145/2063384.2063405>) as provided by the package 'sitmo'. Software Depends: R (>= 3.5.0) Imports: Rcpp (>= 0.12.16) LinkingTo: Rcpp, BH (>= 1.64.0-1), sitmo (>= 2.0.0) Suggests: BH, testthat, knitr, rmarkdown, mvtnorm (>= 1.2-3), bench, sitmo Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@gmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Ralf Stubner [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1908-106X>), daqana GmbH [cph], David Blackman [cph] (Xoroshiro / Xoshiro family), Melissa O'Neill [cph] (PCG family), Sebastiano Vigna [cph] (Xoroshiro / Xoshiro family), Aaron Lun [ctb], Kyle Butts [ctb], Henrik Sloot [ctb], Philippe Grosjean [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2694-9471>) AGPL-3 2024-05-28 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dqrng doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.dqrng