[R] how to initialize random seed properly ?

[A.J. Rossini]

ryszard.czerminski at pharma.novartis.com writes:

> Here is my best solution so far using $RANDOM in bash
> or maybe somebody has "pure R"  solution ?

Sure -- use the rsprng or rlecuyer packages from CRAN, which support
(independent?) streams of random numbers from a common set of seeds.

best,
-tony

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