[Rd] Random Number Generator RNGkind() under "R CMD check" (PR#4691)
w.huber at dkfz.de
w.huber at dkfz.de
Mon Oct 20 22:15:04 MEST 2003
Full_Name: Wolfgang Huber
Version: 1.8.0
OS: Linux
Submission from: (NULL) (193.174.58.146)
The man page for RNGkind says that the default is Mersenne-Twister, and when I
start R interactively, I get in fact
> RNGkind()
[1] "Mersenne-Twister" "Inversion"
However, during the execution of "R CMD check" I get
> > ### ** Examples
> >
> > RNGkind()
> [1] "Wichmann-Hill" "Inversion"
This creates discrepancies between the behaviour of code that uses pseudo random
numbers during "check" and otherwise.
> version
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platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch i686
os linux-gnu
system i686, linux-gnu
status
major 1
minor 8.0
year 2003
month 10
day 08
language R
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