[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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).
.. but if you don't set the seed, you shouldn't expect reproducible
behaviour anyway:
[pd@rasch pd]$ echo "rnorm(2)" | R --vanilla --slave
[1] 2.0281025 0.8735026
[pd@rasch pd]$ echo "rnorm(2)" | R --vanilla --slave
[1] -1.2695122 -0.0448524
I mean, if the prototypical answer to people complaining "I'm not
getting the same results" is simply to ask them to put an
RNGkind("Marsaglia-Multicarry","Kinderman-Ramage") next to their first
set.seed(), how troublesome could it be?
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