repeatable

repeatable(rngfunc, seed = runif(1, 0, .Machine$integer.max))

Arguments

rngfunc	The function that is affected by the R session's seed.
seed	The seed to set every time the resulting function is called.

Make a random number generator repeatable

Value

A repeatable version of the function that was passed in.

Description

Given a function that generates random data, returns a wrapped version of that function that always uses the same seed when called. The seed to use can be passed in explicitly if desired; otherwise, a random number is used.

Note

When called, the returned function attempts to preserve the R session's current seed by snapshotting and restoring .Random.seed.

Examples

rnormA <- repeatable(rnorm)
rnormB <- repeatable(rnorm)
rnormA(3)  # [1]  1.8285879 -0.7468041 -0.4639111

[1] -0.8741222  1.2961640  0.2874364

rnormA(3)  # [1]  1.8285879 -0.7468041 -0.4639111

[1] -0.8741222  1.2961640  0.2874364

rnormA(5)  # [1]  1.8285879 -0.7468041 -0.4639111 -1.6510126 -1.4686924

[1] -0.8741222  1.2961640  0.2874364  0.6916903 -1.1186962

rnormB(5)  # [1] -0.7946034  0.2568374 -0.6567597  1.2451387 -0.8375699

[1] -0.5132492  0.5085536 -1.7886134  0.8040884 -0.1612562