Siegfried Köstlmeier
2019-Jan-11 14:25 UTC
[R-pkgs] New package qrandom: True random numbers
Hi everyone, I would like to introduce a new package for R which is available on CRAN now: qrandom: True Random Numbers using the ANU Quantum Random Numbers Server Note: (1) This package generates true random numbers and can be used as an alternative for RANDOM.ORG. (2) There is absolutely no limit on how many true random numbers one may retrieve. (3) A sequence up to 100,000 true random integers or hexadecimal numbers per single request is possible and data is whether a sequence, uniform distribution or normal distribution. Description: It provides an interface to the ANU Quantum Random Number Generator <https://qrng.anu.edu.au/index.php> provided by the Australian National University. True random numbers are generated in real-time by measuring the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum. The electromagnetic field of the vacuum exhibits random fluctuations in phase and amplitude at all frequencies. By carefully measuring these fluctuations, one is able to generate ultra-high bandwidth random numbers. The quantum Random Number Generator is based on the papers by Symul et al., (2011) <https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3597793> and Haw, et al. (2015) <https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.054004>. The package offers functions to retrieve a sequence of random integers or hexadecimals and true random samples from a normal or uniform distribution. The R package is available via https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/qrandom/index.html If you like to access the developmental version: https://github.com/skoestlmeier/qrandom Best regards, Siegfried K?stlmeier (Ph.D. student in Finance at the University of Regensburg)