[R] Reading in a value of .Random.seed in .Rprofile

[Charles C. Berry]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Rolf Turner wrote:

>
>
> For reasons that are best known to myself [ ;-) ] I have a value of 
> .Random.seed
> saved (via dput()) in a file ``.Random.seed.save''.
>
> In my .Rprofile I have the lines:
>
> .Random.seed <- dget(".Random.seed.save")
> Junk <- dget(".Random.seed.save")
> print(all.equal(.Random.seed,dget(".Random.seed.save")))
> print(all.equal(Junk,dget(".Random.seed.save")))
>
> The two calls to all.equal() both return TRUE.
>
> However when I repeat the calls from the command line after the
> R session has started, I get TRUE from the second (``Junk'') call
> but
>
> [1] "Mean relative difference: 0.1"
>
> from the first.

Not on my computer.

I get TRUE twice whether at start up, source()ing 
.Rprofile, or C-c C-n'ing the lines from emacs ESS.

I have to type

 	load(".RData")

_after_ startup to get behavior like you describe.


Perhaps, you have something later in your .Rprofile that specifically 
load()'s your old .RData?


Chuck

p.s.

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

locale:
C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

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