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2015 Feb 08
3
Which function can change RNG state?
Today I struggled for hours to understand some unexpected package test
results. It turned out that this is because package "parallel", buried deep
in my dependencies, calls runif() during it's initialization and in this way
changes the random number sequence. This seems to be a part of a more
general question--which kind of functions can we trust if we want to
preserve random
2015 Feb 08
0
Which function can change RNG state?
...(RNGkind)` which
details that R 1.7.0 made a change when "Buggy Kinderman-Ramage" was added as
the old value, and "Kinderman-Ramage" was repaired. There once was a similar
fix in the very early days of the Mersenne-Twister which is why the GNU GSL
has two variants with suffixes _1998 and _1998.
So your issue seems like pilot error to me: don't attach the parallel package
if you do not plan to work in parallel. But "do if you do", and see its fine
vignette on how it provides you reproducibility for multiple RNG streams.
In general, you can very much trust R (an...