Hmmmh, but does that also apply if the sample.kind has been set to the old version? I.e., would

if (getRversion()>="3.6.0") RNGkind(sample.kind="Rounding")
val <- 10
set.seed(val)
discard <- sample(1000, 100)
rnorm(36)

produce the same normal random numbers in 3.5.3 and 3.6.0? I would have expected it to, but it seems to produce the same normal random numbers as R version 3.6.0 in the previous version of the test code without the RNGkind call.

Best, Ulrike

Am 09.05.2019 um 16:19 schrieb Duncan Murdoch:
That is:  I'd expect this code to give identical results in both versions, whether I used val <- 10 or any other value:

val <- 10
set.seed(val)
rnorm(36)

This code does not give identical results, because the calls to sample() will result in different changes to the seed:

val <- 10
set.seed(val)
discard <- sample(1000, 100)
rnorm(36)


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