Re: [boost] [Boost] [Random] reproducing numbers generated by R.

AMDG Ronan Trépos wrote:

For validity concerns, I'm trying to reproduce pseudo random numbers generated by the sofware R with boost::random library. The R default number generator is the Mersenne-Twister with period 2^19937 -1 .

1. In R I tried :

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set.seed(13) runif(1)

0.7103224

2. With boost I tried :

boost::mt19937 rng(13); boost::uniform_01<boost::mt19937> zeroone(rng); std::cout << zeroone() << std::endl;

0.777702

Has someone already experienced that ? Is it possible to reproduce the same numbers ? Maybe the mismatch comes from the fact that generated integers are translated into [0;1)..

I don't think so. I think the difference is that R uses its own seeding algorithm. In Christ, Steven Watanabe