improve docs re: set.seed
and reproducibility
#417
Merged
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This PR adds a section to the docs for
generate
and functions used aftergenerate()
ing about reproducibility when resampling! Notes that infer respects the state of the RNG and provides an example of how to reproduce exact results.Worth mentioning that this PR doesn't introduce a more integrated solution to setting the RNG seed, as @kellieotto suggested in #416. I think this avoids introducing an additional layer of abstraction for RNGs (which I find tricky, personally?), though am open to discuss further if folks feel this might be worthwhile.
Closes #416.