seed_seed: Seed Seed

In hkauhanen/hipster: Henri's Idiosyncratic Package for Somewhat Tedious Everyday Routines

Description

First, seeds the random number generator with seed. Then generates a sequence of n random integers between 1 and .Machine$integer.max. Finally, seeds the random number generator with the nth (i.e. last) number in this sequence. The point of this function is that it may be used to seed the RNG at the start of a job that is run on a cluster, so that parallel jobs are using – if not statistically independent random number streams – at least not the exact same stream.

Usage

seed_seed(n, seed, ...)

Arguments

n	Number (e.g. id of parallel job)
seed	Initial seed; this should be set so that results are replicable
...	Further parameters passed to set.seed

Value

The final seed, i.e. the nth number in the sequence

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