On 16 November 2009 at 11:42, Blair Christian wrote: | I have k identical parallel pieces of code running, each using n.rand | random numbers. I would like to use the same RNG (for now), and set | the seeds so that I can guarantee that there are no overlaps in the | random numbers sampled by the k pieces of code. Another side goal is | to have reproducibility of my results. In the past I have used C with | SPRNG for this task, but I'm hoping that there is an easy way to do | this in R with poor man's parallelization (eg running multiple Rs on | multiple processors without the overhead of setting up any mpi or | using snow(fall)). It is not clear from the documentation if set.seed
Are you aware of the CRAN packages 'rsprng' by Li and 'rlecuyer' by Sevcikova and Rossini ? Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ 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.