[R] Random seed

Jeff Newmiller jdnewmil @ending from dcn@d@vi@@c@@u@
Sun Dec 23 05:09:42 CET 2018


It doesn't matter. The whole point is to make the pseudo-random sequence repeatable... unless you have a specific reason to avoid repeatability.

On December 22, 2018 5:33:39 PM PST, Steven Yen <styen using ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>I have known from the old days to set a random seed of a LARGE ODD 
>NUMBER. Now I read instructions of set.seed and it requires ANY
>INTEGER. 
>Any idea? Or, does it matter. Thanks.

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