Hey Galois (?),
See the help file for set.seed() (help(set.seed)).
In short, the current seed is stored in the variable .Random.seed. You
can save the seed with:
myseed <- .Random.seed
Hope that helps,
Simon
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Simon Bonner
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Statistics, UBC
www.simon.bonners.ca
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 15:33 -0400, Galois Theory wrote:> I'm trying to save the random seed in a for loop. How can one go about
doing
> that and preserving the seed for the next session.
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