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2009 May 02
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set.seed and /dev/random
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?).
I assume reading from /dev/random would be different for both of these
machines, so my question is why not use an integer read from
/dev/random to create the seed?
Would