Package: vMF 0.0.3

Aristide Houndetoungan

vMF: Sampling from the von Mises-Fisher Distribution

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

Authors:Aristide Houndetoungan [cre, aut]

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# Install 'vMF' in R:
install.packages('vMF', repos = 'https://cloud.r-project.org')

Bug tracker:https://github.com/ahoundetoungan/vmf/issues

Uses libs:
  • openblas– Optimized BLAS
  • c++– GNU Standard C++ Library v3
  • openmp– GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library

On CRAN:

Conda-Forge:

openblascppopenmp

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Dependencies:RcppRcppArmadillo

An R Package for Fast Sampling from von Mises Fisher Distribution

Aristide Houndetoungan

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Last update: 2023-08-21
Started: 2022-11-21

Citation

To cite package ‘vMF’ in publications use:

Houndetoungan A (2024). vMF: Sampling from the von Mises-Fisher Distribution. R package version 0.0.3, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=vMF.

Corresponding BibTeX entry: 

  @Manual{,
    title = {vMF: Sampling from the von Mises-Fisher Distribution},
    author = {Aristide Houndetoungan},
    year = {2024},
    note = {R package version 0.0.3},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=vMF},
  }

Readme and manuals

The vMF package implements fast sampling from von Mises-Fisher distribution using the method proposed by Andrew T.A Wood (1994).

I provide a vignette that fully documents the package. Moreover, each function of the package has a help page accessible using ?name-of-the-function.