This GitHub issue, although lengthy, discusses some of the technical difficulties associated with pulling from the random stream. I've linked to a comment from Martin that discusses this in particular, but there's other good stuff in the rest of the issue.
https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocParallel/pull/140#issuecomment-921627153 -Spencer On Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 10:41 PM Ellis Patrick <ellis.patr...@sydney.edu.au> wrote: > 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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel. > > ethz.ch > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > 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
