On 06-Jun-07 14:30:44, Jenny Barnes wrote: > Dear R-help, > > Which random number generator function would you recommend for > simply picking 15 random numbers from the sequence 0-42? I want > to use replacement (so that the same number could potentially be > picked more than once).
R has the function sample() which samples a given number of items from a given set, without replacement by default, but with replacement if you specify this. Enter ?sample for more information. In the above case sample((0:42), 15, replace=TRUE) will do what you seem to describe above. Example: > sample((0:42), 15, replace=TRUE) [1] 26 38 1 41 11 30 22 37 28 0 0 25 10 39 27 if you want them in random order (i.e. "as they come off the line"), or > sort(sample((0:42), 15, replace=TRUE)) [1] 1 3 5 8 8 10 16 17 21 25 30 30 33 34 40 if you want them sorted. Best wishes, Ted. > I have read the R-help archives and the statistics and computing > book on modern Applied statistics with S but the advice seems to > be for much form complicated examples, there must be a simpler way > for what I am trying to do? > > If anybody can help me I would greatly appreciate your advice and time, > > Best Wishes, > > Jenny -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 06-Jun-07 Time: 16:24:15 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.