On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:59 PM, megh <megh700...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, I am trying to create a vector of length 10 (say), wherein each element > will be average of random sample of size 100, from a distribution, say > Normal. Can anyone please tell me without creating a "for" loop, how I can > do that? > > Regards, > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Alternate-to-for-loop-tp22035954p22035954.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
as a variant of Patrick Burns code, you can write: rowMeans(matrix(rnorm(1000),ncol=100)) ,and substitute another distribution for rnorm if you want. /Gustaf -- Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. tel: +46(0)703 051 451 address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE skype:gustaf_rydevik ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.