I am writing an R script (using RStudio on Ubuntu 18.04), and at a certain point I need to randomly pick (with no replacement) 123 random numbers between 1 and 1040. I do this with:
myvector[sample(1:1040,X,replace=F)] = 1
where 'myvector' is a 1040-long vector of 0s, and I need to replace 0 with 1 in X=123 random positions.
Every time I copy this exact line of code to the R console and run it, it works as I would expect, picking 123 different numbers at every iteration.
Strangely however, every time I execute the script containing this line of code, it instead picks the same 123 numbers.
At first, I thought this may be due to some trivial object saving/renaming bug, but even if I add
print(sample(1:1040,123,replace=F))
to the script, if picks always the same set of numbers (different from that picked by the code line above, but identical at every iteration).
I haven't invoked set.seed() anywhere within the script and/or ever since I switched the computer on, so I don't understand why it's behaving this way.
Any idea?
Thank you very much
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