[R] Random number

Peter Ehlers ehlers at ucalgary.ca
Sun Oct 11 22:49:27 CEST 2009



Ashta wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have the matrix called  'X' with 200 rows and 12 variables.   I want to
> create 2 new variables (V1 and V2) based on random number generator
> 
> p1<-rnorm(200. mean=0, std=1)
> p2<-rnorm(200. mean=0, std=1)
> x <- cbind(x, v1=ifelse(x[,'p1'] > 0.4, 1, 0), v2=ifelse(x[,'p2'] > 0.6, 0,
> 1))
> 
> I found the following error message
> *Error: unexpected symbol in "p1<-rnorm(200. mean"
> 
> Any help?
> 

You need to increase the size of the font you're working with.
It seems that your eyes can't distinguish a '.' from a ','!

  -Peter Ehlers

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