From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Jan  8 07:40:17 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 07:40:17 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] random seed (PR#804)
In-Reply-To: <200101080329.EAA04375@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0101080738530.25276-100000@auk.stats>

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 kai-wang@uiowa.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Kai Wang
> Version: 1.2.0 (2000-12-15)
> OS: Red Hat Linux 7.0
> Submission from: (NULL) (128.255.176.68)
>
>
> In simulation analyses that use function rnorm(1), I encountered the following
> error message from time to time:
>
> .Random.seed[2] is not a valid integer
>
> The chance of such error message is about 1/20000 replications.
>
> I am using the precompiled RPM for alpha on a Compaq XP 1000 workstation. When I
> compiled R myself, the same problem exists.

Can you confirm which random number generator you are using?
The default one?

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[Rd] random seed (PR#804)
Prof Brian D Ripley