Prime Number Testing and Generation in R

Author: Oliver Keyes License: MIT Status: In development

Description

primes is a simple package that does two things; tests for prime numbers, and generates prime numbers. Testing can be done with is_prime, which accepts an integer vector of any length and returns a logical vector of equal length containing, for each element, whether it is prime (TRUE) or not (FALSE). generate_primes generates every prime number between min and max, where min is 0 by default.

Both functions rely on a C++ implementation of Wilson's theorem for testing primality; in theory this is a very slow test, but in practice, due to the restrictions R places around maximum integer sizes, it's fast enough for our needs.

Installation

For the development version:

devtools::install_github("ironholds/primes")