For the record, low bitcount RNGs are relatively sensitive to initialization [1] such that rules like the one you reference might make sense for specific designs, but the default RNG used in R is much much more sophisticated than that [2].
[1] http://daviddeley.com/random/random4.htm [2] ?Random (https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/Random.html) On December 22, 2018 8:09:42 PM PST, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: >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 <st...@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. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
