On Sat, 2 May 2009, Saptarshi Guha wrote:
Hello,
In ?set.seed I notice that a seed is created from the system time.
Thus if two machines were (hypothetically) running for the same time
and R was started simultaneously on both, the would have the same
seeds (correct?).
Yes. This could in princi
Interesting stuff.
Thank you
Saptarshi
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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> On 2 May 2009 at 18:53, Saptarshi Guha wrote:
> | Hello,
> | In ?set.seed I notice that a seed is created from the system time.
> | Thus if two machines were (hypothetically) running for the sam
On 2 May 2009 at 18:53, Saptarshi Guha wrote:
| Hello,
| In ?set.seed I notice that a seed is created from the system time.
| Thus if two machines were (hypothetically) running for the same time
| and R was started simultaneously on both, the would have the same
| seeds (correct?).
|
| I assume r
Hello,
In ?set.seed I notice that a seed is created from the system time.
Thus if two machines were (hypothetically) running for the same time
and R was started simultaneously on both, the would have the same
seeds (correct?).
I assume reading from /dev/random would be different for both of these
