[R] Reproducibility Between Local and Remote Computer with R

[Jeff Newmiller]

Compare the sessionInfo outputs for the different environments.

On August 7, 2020 1:24:55 PM PDT, Kevin Egan <kevinegan31 using gmail.com> wrote:
>I posted this question:
>
>I am currently using R , RStudio , and a remote computer (using an R
>script) to run the same code. I start by using set.seed(123) in all
>three versions of the code, then using glmnet to assess a matrix.
>Ultimately, I am having trouble reproducing the results between my
>local and the remote computer's results. I am using R version 4.0.2
>locally, and R version 3.6.0 remote.
>
>After running several tests, I'm wondering if there is a difference
>between the two versions in R which may lead to slightly different
>coefficients. If anyone has any insight I would appreciate it.
>
>Thanks.
>
>and found that there were slight differences between using rnorm with
>R-4.0.2 and R-3.6.0 but did not find any differences for runif between
>both systems. In my original code, I am using rnorm and was wondering
>if this may be the reason I am finding slight differences in
>coefficients for glmnet and lars testing between using my local
>computer (R-4.0.2) and my remote computer (R-3.6.0). I am running my
>code locally on a MacOSX and remote on what I believe is an HPC.
>
>Thanks.
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