Hi Boris.

Here is one approach:

N<-100
a<-rep(0,N)
a[sample(N,1)]<-1
a
which(a==1)

Look ?sample, ?which.

Andrija

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Boris Beranger <borisberan...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a zero vector of length N and I would like to randomly allocate the
> value 1 to one of the values of this vector. I presume I have to use the
> uniform distribution but could someone tell me how I should process?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Boris
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