Re: [R] generate randomly a value of a vector
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.comwrote: 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 -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/generate-randomly-a-value-of-a-vector-tp3798190p3798190.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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.
Re: [R] generate randomly a value of a vector
On 09/08/2011 04:42 AM, Boris Beranger wrote: 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? rmultinom(m,1,rep(1,N)) where m is the number of random vectors you wish to generate in this manner. -- Patrick Breheny Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics Department of Statistics University of Kentucky __ 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.
Re: [R] generate randomly a value of a vector
Thank you very much Andrija, I have been do some research and was about to post the same solution. Boris -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/generate-randomly-a-value-of-a-vector-tp3798190p3798595.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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.