[R] generate random number

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Kaspar Pflugshaupt [mailto:pflugshaupt at cirsium.ethz.ch]
| Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2001 17:32
| To: Yu-Ling Wu
| Cc: r-help mailing list
| Subject: Re: [R] generate random number
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| On Wednesday 21 March 2001 02:15, Yu-Ling Wu wrote:
| > Hi,
| >
| > I want to pick 3 "integer" random numbers from 1 to
| > 10. How to do this?
| 
| as.integer(runif(3)*10+1)

Eh?  There is a simpler way:

sample(1:10, 3)
sample(1:10, 3, rep=T)

depending on what is meant.  The second is equivalent to yours.


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| Kaspar Pflugshaupt
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