This Rmd file is in response to a question during the R-Ladies Baltimore 2020-10-20 event. The code is available on this gist and the rendered version is available through RPubs.

Set the seed then print a set of random 10 letters.

set.seed(20201020)
result <- sample(letters, size = 10)
result
##  [1] "e" "r" "k" "d" "h" "a" "c" "i" "j" "q"

Test that it is the expected sequence of 10 letters

stopifnot(
    identical(
        result,
        c("e", "r", "k", "d", "h", "a", "c", "i", "j", "q")
    )
)

Reproducibility information

options(width = 120)
sessioninfo::session_info()
## ─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
##  setting  value                       
##  version  R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
##  os       macOS Catalina 10.15.6      
##  system   x86_64, darwin17.0          
##  ui       X11                         
##  language (EN)                        
##  collate  en_US.UTF-8                 
##  ctype    en_US.UTF-8                 
##  tz       America/New_York            
##  date     2020-10-20                  
## 
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##  cli           2.0.2   2020-02-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)                    
##  colorout    * 1.2-2   2020-05-18 [1] Github (jalvesaq/colorout@726d681)
##  crayon        1.3.4   2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)                    
##  digest        0.6.25  2020-02-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)                    
##  evaluate      0.14    2019-05-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)                    
##  fansi         0.4.1   2020-01-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)                    
##  glue          1.4.2   2020-08-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)                    
##  htmltools     0.5.0   2020-06-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)                    
##  knitr         1.30    2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)                    
##  magrittr      1.5     2014-11-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)                    
##  rlang         0.4.7   2020-07-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)                    
##  rmarkdown     2.3     2020-06-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)                    
##  sessioninfo   1.1.1   2018-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)                    
##  stringi       1.5.3   2020-09-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)                    
##  stringr       1.4.0   2019-02-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)                    
##  withr         2.3.0   2020-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)                    
##  xfun          0.18    2020-09-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.2)                    
##  yaml          2.2.1   2020-02-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.0.0)                    
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