[R] A coding question involving variable assignments

[xpRt.wannabe]

Thank you!  That was helpful.

Another thing I learned was that I would need to do set.seed(99) not
once but twice in this context.

On 8/11/05, ecatchpole <e.catchpole at adfa.edu.au> wrote:
> On 12/08/05 13:27,  xpRt.wannabe wrote,:
> > Ted and List,
> >
> > What I need is I need to know what max of rnorm(rpois(1,10)) is before
> > R does sum(), replicate(10, ...) and replicate(5, ...).
> >
> > The fact that you have set.seed(99) twice, does that mean, say, entry
> > [1,1] 0.4896243 in 'mx' is one of the z number of values generated by
> > rnorm(rpois(1,10)) that add up to [1,1]  -2.0071674 in 'x'?  Another
> > way to ask the question, I guess, is, by doing set.seed(99) twice are
> > the values generated by rnorm(rpois(1,10)) for 'x' same as those for
> > 'mx'?
> 
> Yes, that's the reason for having a set.seed() function.
> 
> Ted.
> 
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