oo long
> > to figure out that set.seed() doesn't work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ellis
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Bioc-devel On Behalf Of Spencer
> > Nystrom
> > Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2021 2:15 PM
> > To: Dario Str
t; to figure out that set.seed() doesn't work.
>
> Thanks,
> Ellis
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Bioc-devel On Behalf Of Spencer
> Nystrom
> Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2021 2:15 PM
> To: Dario Strbenac
> Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Bioc
strom
Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2021 2:15 PM
To: Dario Strbenac
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
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
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
I'm not sure that this is a good idea? For instance R does not set the random
number stream to be the same by default. Not sure what others might think...
Martin
On 11/26/21, 6:01 AM, "Bioc-devel on behalf of Dario Strbenac via Bioc-devel"
wrote:
Good day,
I maintain an R package wh
Good day,
I maintain an R package which makes use of functions such as bplapply which has
bpparam() as the default. I have received feedback from a beginnre user that
the results change when he knitted his R Markdown document a second time. This
stems from the default constructor of bpparam() w
