Re: [R] Correctly Setting New Seed

2013-05-08 Thread jim holtman
This approach gives the same results: > set.seed(1) > for (i in 1:10) print(runif(1)) [1] 0.2655087 [1] 0.3721239 [1] 0.5728534 [1] 0.9082078 [1] 0.2016819 [1] 0.8983897 [1] 0.9446753 [1] 0.6607978 [1] 0.629114 [1] 0.06178627 > > set.seed(1) > for (i in 1:5) print(runif(1)) [1] 0.2655087 [1] 0.372

Re: [R] Correctly Setting New Seed

2013-05-08 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Ellerbe, Caitlyn Nicole > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:51 AM > To: Ellerbe, Caitlyn Nicole; r-help@R-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Correctly Setting New

Re: [R] Correctly Setting New Seed

2013-05-08 Thread John Kane
://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example Thanks John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -Original Message- > From: eller...@musc.edu > Sent: Wed, 8 May 2013 14:50:42 -0400 > To: eller...@musc.edu, r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Correctly S

Re: [R] Correctly Setting New Seed

2013-05-08 Thread Ellerbe, Caitlyn Nicole
t.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ellerbe, Caitlyn Nicole Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 2:06 PM To: r-help@R-project.org Subject: [R] Correctly Setting New Seed Could someone please suggest a method to store the current random seed. I'm having trouble understanding how to cor

Re: [R] Correctly Setting New Seed

2013-05-08 Thread Jeff Newmiller
"Crashes" is not a clear description. When I execute the statement: set.seed(seed) I get the error Error in set.seed(seed) : object 'seed' not found which makes sense because there is no variable defined that is called "seed". Choose a literal value like 42: set.seed(42) or define the variab

[R] Correctly Setting New Seed

2013-05-08 Thread Ellerbe, Caitlyn Nicole
Could someone please suggest a method to store the current random seed. I'm having trouble understanding how to correctly use set.seed and .Random.seed. Specifically, I have the following code that crashes: set.seed(seed) for(i in 1:10){ print( runif(1)) } To get around this I need to