Set seed for random()

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Hi

Is there a way to set the seed for random() in EasyMorph to get reproducible results when random() is used ?

Thanks ?
Nikolaas

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Hi Nikolaas,

random() isn't supposed to be reproducible by design. Why do you need a reproducible random?

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Hi

I use random() in a procedure to impute missing data. When the same data is reprocessed (full loads), I would like to generate the same random value so that the same imputation occurs for the same record.

I have worked around by using lookup to get values of earlier runs. But I know in other programming languages like R a set.seed() exists to create reproducible output. That's the reason I was curious if it was possible in EasyMorph in some way.

So no hard feature request.

Kind regards
Nikolaas

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Hi Nikolaas,

We've added a new action in v5.7.2: "Anonymize/Hash". It produces a deterministic hash from one or more columns and can additionally use salt/seed.

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