Could someone please suggest a method to store the current random seed. I'm having trouble understanding how to correctly use set.seed and .Random.seed.
Specifically, I have the following code that crashes: set.seed(seed) for(i in 1:10){ print( runif(1)) } To get around this I need to split the number of iterations into chunks: set.seed(seed) for(i in 1:5){ print(runif(1)) new.seed<-.Random.seed } set.seed(new.seed) for(i in 6:10){ print(runif(1)) } When I compare the sequence of numbers from the single run to the sequence from the chunked code they don't match. Is the .Random.seed argument in the wrong position or is there another way to accomplish this? ------------------------------------------------------- Caitlyn Ellerbe Division of Biostatistics Department of Public Health Medical University of South Carolina [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.