[R] random number generation from a-/symmetric distribution

[mel]

Garbade, Sven a écrit :

> Hi list,
> are there any functions or ideas to compute random numbers with a specific population mean and standard deviation from symmetric (but not normal) and asymmetric distributions? My first idea was to use e.g. rf() (and other R-functions for random number generation)  and then scale the random numbers (for example: mean 300 and standard deviation 40), but I don't know if I'm wrong...
> Thanks, Sven

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/boot.html
and all methods/packages related to bootstraping.
hih