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Seriously? You should be ashamed of yourself for even considering posting a question like this. Charles Thuo wrote> what is the purpose of the subject function > > Charles > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________> R-help@> mailing list > 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.-- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/purpose-of-the-set-seed-function-tp4681554p4681559.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
To start a random sequence that can be reproduced later. The particular seed
value used should not be important unless either the random number generator or
the computations that use the random numbers are flawed.
?set.seed
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator
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Charles Thuo <tcmuigai at gmail.com> wrote:>what is the purpose of the subject function
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 02:42:42PM +0300, Charles Thuo wrote:> what is the purpose of the subject functionplease see rule #6 of "Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research" [Sandve et.al., PLoS Comput Biol 9(10): e1003285 doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003285] Can't resist this opportunity to spread the word about this article. Best regards, Jan> Charles > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > 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.-- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | email: jttkim at gmail.com | | WWW: http://www.jtkim.dreamhosters.com/ | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----*