Hello, In ?set.seed I notice that a seed is created from the system time. Thus if two machines were (hypothetically) running for the same time and R was started simultaneously on both, the would have the same seeds (correct?).
I assume reading from /dev/random would be different for both of these machines, so my question is why not use an integer read from /dev/random to create the seed? Would it be a portability issue? I must admit I have very little idea about RNGs, so my question is possibly very naive. Thank you Saptarshi ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
