Questions about set.seed() in R

Question

I understand what set.seed() does and when I might use it, but I still have many questions about the function. Here are a few:

1. Is it possible to \

Answer 1

Just for fun:

set.seed.alpha <- function(x) {
  require("digest")
  hexval <- paste0("0x",digest(x,"crc32"))
  intval <- type.convert(hexval) %% .Machine$integer.max
  set.seed(intval)
}

So you can do:

set.seed.alpha("hello world")

(in fact x can be any R object, not just an alphanumeric string)