RNG initialization
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:35:45 -0500 From: Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca>
Personally I do not like the altering of system functions in user packages, as what happens if two or more people do it? It depends on the load order.
Yes, I don't see any way around this in Splus, but it would be nice if it was done in R base. In fact as I recall, some of the hooks may be in R's C code
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that would be the fastest place to do RNG changes. Martin was going to look at it sometime, but I don't know if he has had a chance.
Sure, it is easy and that was what I was proposing to do. 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.
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