Thanks for the heads up, Don. I fixed the file in version 0.1.1.
I also changed the default CBLAS to the one that comes with the GSL.
Anyone who cares at all about performance will want to configure the
package to use the best CBLAS on their system. If this is ATLAS, make
sure you pass the "-fatlas" argument when you configure the package.
Patrick
On Aug 28, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Don Stewart wrote:
patperry:
Hi everyone,
I've started on bindings for the random number generators and random
distributions provided by the gsl. The package is available here:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/gsl-random
I've also written a monad and transformer for doing monte carlo
computations that uses gsl-random internally. Here is that package:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/monte-
carlo
For a quick tutorial in the latter package, see my blog:
http://quantile95.com/2008/08/27/a-monte-carlo-monad-for-haskell/
There is also a more complicated example in the "examples" directory.
Currently, only normal, uniform, and poisson random variables are
supported. I have no plans to add anything else unless I need it,
but
I will happily accept patches if someone else is willing to do the
work.
One thing you may need to watch out for is that gsl-random needs to
link with cblas. If your cblas is not called "cblas", you may have
to
edit "gsl-random.cabal" to get things to work correctly. To use the
cblas that comes with the gsl, change "cblas" to "gslcblas". To use
ATLAS, change "cblas" to "cblas atlas".
Arch packages available here,
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19416
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19417
Note I had to patch gsl-random's .cabal file to not explicitly look
for
extra libs in /opt/local/lib. The exact path (if any) should be cabal
(or ./configure's) job, I think.
-- Don
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