Table 1.

Optional arguments of begin.rctrack

Argument	Value	Action
rng.init	a list with components	specifies how random number generation
	seed, kind, and normal.kind	will be initialized by set.seed
details.file	name of Rdata file to store details	end.rctrack will save details to this file
archive.folder	character string name of	end.rctrack will create a directory
	the archive directory	with name defined by appending a time
		stamp to archive.folder
maxsize.archive	a numeric with file size in bytes	end.rctrack will NOT copy INPUT
		files larger than this size to
		the archive directory
do.not.archive	a vector of character strings	files with extensions matching these strings
		will NOT be moved to the archive directory
skip.file.calls	a vector of character strings	a list of high-level file access statements
	with function names	for which details will NOT be collected
skip.empty.description	a logical (TRUE/FALSE) that	if TRUE, then no details about file
	indicates whether to skip detail	access events with empty descriptions
	collection for empty file descriptions	(no file name) will be collected
rng.trace	a logical that indicates	if TRUE, begin.rctrack will
	whether to collect details	embed rctrack.random into each of the
	about every random number	functions listed in the rng.functions
	generation event	argument so that a record of every call
		to those functions is retained.
rng.functions	a vector of character strings with	begin.rctrack will embed
	the names of functions that	rctrack.random into each of these
	generate random numbers	functions so that their use
		is documented in rc.env and
		details.file
print.trace	a logical that indicates	Messages will be issued if TRUE
	whether to print messages about
	detail tracking