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List:       r-devel
Subject:    Re: R-alpha: random number generator
From:       Paul Gilbert <pgilbert () bank-banque-canada ! ca>
Date:       1997-11-21 19:32:10
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>LT> The bottom line is that it would be nice to eventually provide
"power
>LT> users" with more control over the random number generator system.

>maybe the time to think about this, could be now..?
>Proposals?

Maybe there is some subtlty here that I don't understand, but is it not
possible to just add an optional argument to the functions which call
the random number generator, with the default being the current
generator?

Paul Gilbert

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