On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote: > If reworking the RNG mechanism is considered seriously (and I am not advocating > that), I suggest: > > 1/ There should be a simple mechanism for keeping track of and resetting all the > information to generate random numbers, that is, seed, uniform generator, and > transformations. (I have a package, which I intend to distribute shortly, that > does this for normal distributions and might form a basis for this mechanism. It > was previously part of my syskern package in dse, and so the mechanism has been > fairly well tested over several years.)
That's what RNGkind and set.seed do, and have done for a long time. The information is also stored in .Random.seed, but few users would record that (and it does not exist until the first RNG is used). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
