Hi All, Sorry I'm not an advanced user. What is the disadvantage of pulling the default from .Random.seed? As a non-advanced user it took me way too long to figure out that set.seed() doesn't work.
Thanks, Ellis -----Original Message----- From: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Spencer Nystrom Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2021 2:15 PM To: Dario Strbenac <dstr7...@uni.sydney.edu.au> Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] bpparam Non-deterministic Default 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://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1cu1CwV1vMfGxk9ngFVLYJj?domain=stat. > ethz.ch > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/1cu1CwV1vMfGxk9ngFVLYJj?domain=stat.ethz.ch _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
