[R] Problems creating a random sample

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:05:21 +0100 (CET)
> From: Adriane Leal <loparic at student.fsa.ucl.ac.be>
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Problems creating a random sample 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm supposed to create a random sample bivariate normal variates of size
> equal to 250 with  mean vector (-1,1) and cov matrix (1,0.95,0.95,1)
> 
> In S language I would write:
> 
> > mean<-c(-1,1)
> > cov<-c(1,0.95,0.95,1)
> > covmat<-matrix(cov,nrow=2,ncol=2)
> > mvnorm<-rmvnorm(250,mean,covmat)
> ... and it should work
> 
> I've tried this in R, but it does not recognize "rmvnorm".
> 
> (Error: couldn't find function "rmvnorm")

rmvnorm is an S-PLUS function, version 4.0 and later. It is not part of
S.  It is based on mvrnorm in package MASS (in the VR bundle), so try
that. Your example works for me.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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