The objective of sitmo (CRAN, GitHub) is to provide the means for performing parallel draws from a Parallel Pseudo Random Number Generator (PPRNG). To that end, the package is largely a bridge into the PPRNGs developed by the sitmo consultancy agency. After two years without a new release, sitmo has been updated to address an issue highlighted by Yihui in knitr issue #2057 regarding unbalanced code chunk delimiters within the …