[R] runif and sample with reproducibility

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Eric ESPOSITO wrote:

> Hello,
> I already sent such an email before Christmas, but nobody answered, so here

There *was* an answer posted, see the archives here:

https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2003-December/042422.html

and none of the rest of us has any idea why this does not work for you
(if indeed it does not).

> is my problem:
> I would like to sample a population but the result needs to be
> reproducible, using 'runif' or 'sample' is the good way to do it but I
> can't manage to make the results reproducible even with the 'set.seed'
> function.
> My aim is that th call to 'sample(1:100,10)' gives always the same result,
> how can I do that?
> Thanks!
> 
> Eric Esposito

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