[R] error message: .Random.seed is not an integer vector but of type 'list'

[Uwe Ligges]

Jim Bouldin wrote:
> Thank you.  However, when I tried that, I got this message:
 >
> Warning message:
> In rm(.Random.seed) : variable ".Random.seed" was not found


In that case, have you attached some package that has its own .Random.seed?
Try to find where the current .random.seed comes from R complains about.

Uwe Ligges






>> Jim Bouldin wrote:
>>> I'm trying to run this simple random sample procedure and keep getting
>> the
>>> error message shown. I don't understand this; I've designated x as a
>>> numeric vector, so what is going on here?  Thanks.
>>>
>>>> x = as.vector(c(1:12));x
>>>  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12
>>>> mode(x)
>>> [1] "numeric"
>>>> sample(x, 3)
>>> Error in sample(x, 3) : 
>>>   .Random.seed is not an integer vector but of type 'list'
>>
>> Something has changed/corrupted an object called .Random.seed that is 
>> required by the Random Number Generator.
>>
>> Just say
>>   rm(.Random.seed)
>> and try again.
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
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