[Bioc-devel] bpparam Non-deterministic Default

[Spencer Nystrom]

I agree with Martin. I think it is worse for beginners to falsely believe
their results are deterministic when they are not. This sounds like a
problem that should be solved with documentation and maybe even examples of
setting the RNG seed manually.

I also worry about advanced users and pollution of RNG seed global state by
having packages assign their own seed. Just sounds like a mess for little
gain.

  -Spencer


On Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 7:00 PM Dario Strbenac via Bioc-devel <
bioc-devel using r-project.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Might it instead made possible to set an RNGseed value by specifying one
> to bpparam but still get the automated back-end selection, so that it could
> easily be set to a particular value in an R package?
>
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