[R] Reproducibility Between Local and Remote Computer with R

[Kevin Egan]

Local:
R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.6

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] crayon_1.3.4     dplyr_1.0.0      R6_2.4.1         lifecycle_0.2.0  magrittr_1.5     pillar_1.4.3    
 [7] rlang_0.4.7      rstudioapi_0.11  vctrs_0.3.1      generics_0.0.2   ellipsis_0.3.0   tools_4.0.2     
[13] glue_1.4.1       purrr_0.3.4      yaml_2.2.1       compiler_4.0.2   pkgconfig_2.0.3  tidyselect_1.1.0
[19] tibble_3.0.1 


Remote:
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /ddn/apps/Cluster-Apps/intel/2019.5/compilers_and_libraries_2019.5.281/linux/mkl/lib/intel64_lin/libmkl_gf_lp64.so

locale:
[1] C

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.6.3

> On 8 Aug 2020, at 08:17, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> 
> 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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