Make exported RNG functions respect changes to R's seed #973
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Summary
Exported RNG functions currently manage their state separately from R, so a user calling
set.seed()
has no effect on the result of the RNG.This PR updates the exporting of RNG functions to additionally update their seed deterministically from the current seed in R
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