[R] specify seed for Random Number Generator

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Dhiren DSouza" <dhiren22 at hotmail.com> writes:

> I need to generate 100 I.I.D samples from an exponential distribution.  I 
> use rexp(100,parameter).  Is there anyway to specify a seed to determine the 
> first input for the uniform random number generator used to generate these 
> exponentials?

Try set.seed()

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