RNG initialization

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> >I was just proposing
> >to be compatible with S-PLUS and not syskern.  I really don't
> >see why syskern needs to use the name set.seed.
> 
> No, syskern does not need to use the name set.seed. I used it hoping this stuff
> would move to R  base at some point and I could remove it from syskern.
> 
> Beyond the name however, there are some Splus compatiblity issues which probably
> should be discussed. I seem to recall that there was some difficulty producing
> Splus runif results in R.  Also, the ability to specify the RNG in R is nice and

Of course, as the Splus runif is not implemented in R. There is something
similar, but it is not the same.


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