From pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca  Tue Jan 18 16:35:45 2000
From: pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:35:45 -0500
Subject: RNG initialization
References: <200001181533.PAA25043@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <38849661.AC7A95FB@bank-banque-canada.ca>

>Personally I do not like the altering of system functions in user
>packages, as what happens if two or more people do it? It depends
>on the load order.

Yes, I don't see any way around this in Splus, but it would be nice if it was
done in R base. In fact as I recall, some of the hooks may be in R's C code and
that would be the fastest place to do RNG changes. Martin was going to look at
it sometime, but I don't know if he has had a chance.

Paul Gilbert

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RNG initialization
Paul Gilbert