RNG initialization
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 should be accommodated, and setting the seed without setting the RNG is probably not wise. Finally, I feel it is important to also specify the algorithms for other transformations such rnorm. This way, one can be relatively confident that a random experiment can be reproduced. Paul Gilbert -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._