[R] generate random numeric

[Jeff Newmiller]

It is difficult to do "truly random" number generation with computers, but fortunately number sequences that appear random but progress consistently from an initial seed value (?set.seed) are actually much more useful for analysis purposes than true randomness is.

On October 28, 2021 11:39:07 PM PDT, Ken Peng <ken using pubbox.net> wrote:
>I saw runif(1) can generate a random num, is this the true random?
>
>> runif(1)
>[1] 0.8945383
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>What's the other better method?
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>Thank you.
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