Hello,

Have been thinking that sometimes users may want each process to initialize
its random seed with a specific value rather then the current seed. This
could be keyed off depending whether mc.set.seed is logical, preserving the
current behaviour, or numerical, using the value in a call to set.seed.
Does this make sense?

If you wonder how I came up with the idea: I spent a couple of hours
debugging "unstable" results from parallel tuning of svms, which was caused
by the parallel execution. In my case I can simply do the set.seed in the
FUN argument function, but that may not be always the case.

Ivan

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