[R] Random sample from log-normal distribution

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, jim holtman wrote:

> ?rlnorm

Not for a bivariate lognormal, nor specifying via mean and variance
(which is not the normal way to specify a univariate lognormal).

I think we need clarification of exactly what is meant, but the answer is 
most likely 'no'.

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> On 11/18/06, Megh Dal <megh700004 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Dear all R users,
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>> Please forgive me if my question is too trivial.
>> Suppose I have two variables, (x,y) which is
>> log-normally distributed with expected value (mu1,
>> mu2) and some variance-covariance matrix. Now I want
>> to draw a random sample of size 1000 from this
>> distribution. Is there any function available to do
>> this?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Megh
>>
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