[R] question on runif
    Carl Witthoft 
    carl at witthoft.com
       
    Wed Jan 20 23:55:35 CET 2010
    
    
  
While I agree that this is someone's homework,  it occur to me that we 
can mess him up a little more.
He asked for 200 points *uniformly* distributed on (or in) a circle. 
Well,  he did NOT say "uniform random distribution".
So in fact the plot, "on" a circle would be
theta <-seq(0,2*pi, by = pi/100 )  # plus or minus a couple
radius<-1
plot({x,y converted from theta, radius})
I'm not quite sure how one generates 200 uniformly distributed points 
inside a circle,-- which btw means "on a disc" .
Maybe simply requiring them to be arranged so that all nearest neighbor 
distances are the same  :-)
Carl
    
    
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