In R-2.10.0, the development version, function as.factor() uses 17 digit
precision for conversion of numeric values to character type. This
is very good for the consistency of the resulting factor, however,
i expect that people will complain about, for example, as.factor(0.3)
being
[1] 0.2999
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:
>
> 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
