[R] Random Integers

[Andy Fugard]

On 25 Feb 2007, at 06:51, Anup Nandialath wrote:

>
> Is there an R function to generate random integers?  Thanks in  
> advance.

The package Random does what you want, but requires a net connection.

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/random.html

"This package provides an interface to the true random number service  
provided by the random.org website created by Mads Haahr. The  
random.org web service samples atmospheric noise via radio tuned to  
an unused broadcasting frequency together with a skew correction  
algorithm due to John von Neumann."

install.packages("random")
library(random)
?random

 > randomNumbers(10,1,6,1)
    V1
1   5
2   3
3   6
4   3
5   3
6   1
7   6
8   4
9   5
10  3

Andy

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