Hi,
according to help("set.seed"), argument 'seed' to set.seed() should be:
a single value, interpreted as an integer, or NULL (see ‘Details’).
>From code inspection (src/main/RNG.c) and testing, it turns out that
if you pass a 'seed' with length greater than one, it silently uses
seed[1], e.g.
> set.seed(1); sum(.Random.seed)
[1] 4070365163
> set.seed(1:3); sum(.Random.seed)
[1] 4070365163
> set.seed(1:100); sum(.Random.seed)
[1] 4070365163
I'd like to suggest that set.seed() produces an error if length(seed)
> 1. As a reference, for length(seed) == 0, we get:
> set.seed(integer(0))
Error in set.seed(integer(0)) : supplied seed is not a valid integer
/Henrik
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