Strictly not for use in statistical analysis. Non-reproducible and with
unknown statistical properties. Provides an alternative source of randomness
from the Mbed TLS library for purposes such as cryptographic key generation.
Mbed TLS uses a block-cipher in counter mode operation, as defined in
NIST SP800-90A: Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using
Deterministic Random Bit Generators. The implementation uses AES-256 as the
underlying block cipher, with a derivation function, and an entropy collector
combining entropy from multiple sources including at least one strong entropy
source.
Usage
random(n = 1L, convert = TRUE)
Value
A length ‘n’ raw vector, or length one vector of ‘2n’
random characters, depending on the value of ‘convert’ supplied.
Arguments
n
[default 1L] integer random bytes to generate (from 0 to 1024),
coerced to integer if required. If a vector, the first element is taken.
convert
[default TRUE] logical FALSE to return a raw vector, or TRUE
to return the hex representation of the bytes as a character string.