From Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>  Tue Jan 18 16:40:30 2000
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:40:30 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: RNG initialization
Message-ID: <200001181640.QAA17215@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>

> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:35:45 -0500
> From: Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@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.

Sure, it is easy and that was what I was proposing to do. I was just
proposing to be compatible with S-PLUS and not syskern.  I really don't
see why syskern needs to use the name set.seed.

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RNG initialization
Prof Brian Ripley