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PSCBS (version 0.67.0)

randomSeed: Sets and resets the .Random.seed in the global environment

Description

Sets and resets the .Random.seed in the global environment.

Usage

randomSeed(action=c("set", "advance", "reset", "get"), seed=NULL, kind=NULL, n=1L,
  backup=TRUE)

Value

Returns a .Random.seed. If more than one is returned, the they are returned as a list.

Arguments

action

A character string specifying the action.

seed

Random seed to be set; only for action="set". If length(seed) == 1, then set.seed(seed) is used, otherwise .Random.seed is assigned the value.

kind

(optional) A character string specifying type of random number generator to use, cf. RNGkind().

n

Number of random seeds to generate by action.

backup

If TRUE, the previous (seed, kind) state is recorded such that it can be reset later.

Author

Henrik Bengtsson