[R] Reconcile Random Samples
Mike Harwood
harwood262 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 18:19:04 CET 2010
Is there a way to generate identical random samples using R's runif
function and SAS's ranuni function? I have assigned the same seed
values in both software packages, but the following results show
different results. Thanks!
R
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> set.seed(6)
> random <- runif(10)
> random
[1] 0.6062683 0.9376420 0.2643521 0.3800939 0.8074834 0.9780757
0.9579337
[8] 0.7627319 0.5096485 0.0644768
SAS (the log file)
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15 data _null_;
16 do i=1 to 10;
17 random = ranuni(6);
18 put i= random=;
19 end;
20 run;
i=1 random=0.1097754189
i=2 random=0.8205322939
i=3 random=0.3989458365
i=4 random=0.5563918723
i=5 random=0.5296154672
i=6 random=0.8156640985
i=7 random=0.2578750389
i=8 random=0.1901503369
i=9 random=0.2987641572
i=10 random=0.3993993096
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