R: News for Package 'RcppZiggurat'

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News for Package RcppZiggurat

The vignette is now premade and rendered as Rnw via pdfpage to minimize the need for TeXLive package at build / install time (Dirk)
Windows builds now use the GNU GSL when Rtools is 42 or later (Tomas Kalibera in #25)

The CI setup was updated to use run.sh from r-ci (Dirk).
The windows build was updated to GSL 2.7, and UCRT support was added (Jeroen in #16).
Manual pages now use JSS DOIs for references per CRAN request
README.md links and badges have been updated
Continuous integration actions have been updated several times
The DESCRIPTION file now uses Authors@R as mandated
Use of multiple cores is eased via a new helper function reflecting option mc.core or architecture defaults, used in tests
An inline function has been added to avoid a compiler nag
Support for exponential RNG draws zrexp has been added, the internal uniform generator is now also exposed via zruni
The vignette bibliography has been updated, and switched to DOIs
New package zigg is now mentioned in DESCRIPTION and vignette

Several typos were corrected in the vignette (Blagoje Ivanovic in #9).
New getters and setters for internal state were added to resume simulations (Dirk in #11 fixing #10).
Minor updates to cleanup script and Travis CI setup (Dirk).

Description rewritten using doi for references.
Re-setting the Ziggurat generator seed now correctly re-sets state (Ralf Stubner in #7 fixing #3)
Dynamic registration reverts to manual mode so that user_norm_rand() is visible as well (#7).
The vignette was updated to accomodate pandoc 2* [CRAN request].

Use the SHR3 generator for the default implementation just like Leong et al do, making our default implementation identical to theirs (but 32- and 64-bit compatible)
Switched generators from float to double ensuring that results are identical on 32- and 64-bit platforms
Simplified builds with respect to GSL use via the RcppGSL package; added a seed setter for the GSL variant
Corrected use of fabs() to abs() on integer variables, with a grateful nod to Brian Ripley for the hint (based on CRAN checks on the beloved Slowlaris machines)
Accelerated Travis CI tests by relying exclusively on r-cran-* packages from the PPAs by Michael Rutter and myself
Updated DESCRIPTION and NAMESPACE according to current best practices, and R-devel CMD check --as-cran checks

Add a new generator deploying R's unif_rand which faciliates use of Ziggurat as the user-supplied generator for N(0,1)
Update a 'local' demo comparing normal distribution RNGs from Boost, C++11 and Armadillo none of which are particularly speedy
Add declaration to import a symbol from Rcpp to NAMESPACE to ensure proper instantiation with the upcoming Rcpp version

Testing framework added with a standard RNG test, a new and similar test particular for Normal distributions, and the Chi^2 test from the Leong et al paper (JSS, 2005)
New demo() functionality showing the three added tests.
Code has been reorganized into separate headers implementing the generators, using a common (virtual) base class; and accessors and tests in the src/ directory.
Two new ziggurat generators implementations have been adapted from, respectively, GNU Gretl and QuantLib
Added a vignette