[R] generating ordered, random decimal fractions

[Peter Ehlers]

I must be missing something; can't you just use, e.g., one of:

  sort(round(runif(10), 3))

  sort(sample(1000, 10, TRUE)/1000)

?

   -Peter Ehlers


On 2010-06-12 7:49, Kurt_Helf at nps.gov wrote:
> Greetings
> How do I do this in R?  Checking the Cran site produces a bewildering array
> of packages that I can't seem to find to load.  Surely the main program has
> this function?
> Cheers
> Kurt
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