I agree with Martin. I think it is worse for beginners to falsely believe their results are deterministic when they are not. This sounds like a problem that should be solved with documentation and maybe even examples of setting the RNG seed manually.
I also worry about advanced users and pollution of RNG seed global state by having packages assign their own seed. Just sounds like a mess for little gain. -Spencer On Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 7:00 PM Dario Strbenac via Bioc-devel < bioc-devel@r-project.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Might it instead made possible to set an RNGseed value by specifying one > to bpparam but still get the automated back-end selection, so that it could > easily be set to a particular value in an R package? > > -------------------------------------- > Dario Strbenac > University of Sydney > Camperdown NSW 2050 > Australia > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
