[R] Generating random normal distribution with mean 0 and standarddeviation 1

michael watson (IAH-C) michael.watson at bbsrc.ac.uk
Fri Jul 14 14:19:50 CEST 2006


See rnorm() 

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From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Neuro LeSuperHéros
Sent: 14 July 2006 13:15
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Generating random normal distribution with mean 0 and standarddeviation 1

Hello,

This must be really simple, but I can't find it on R Site search.  I need to 
generate a random normally distributed series with mean 0 and sd 1. In 
Matlab, this code is randn(n).

The closest I found is runif(20,-1,1) but this forces a maximum and a 
minimum, and there's no way to specify a standard deviation of 1.

>sd(runif(20,-1,1))
[1] 0.578164

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