[R] generate random numbers for lotteries

[Mike Miller]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Daniel Nordlund wrote:

> I don't know what the OP is really trying to accomplish yet, and I am 
> not motivated (yet) to try to figure it out.  However, all this 
> "flooring" and "ceiling) and "rounding" is not necessary for generating 
> uniform random integers.  For N integers in the range from A to B it is 
> as simple as
>
> sample(A:B, N, replace=TRUE)

That is easier to work with.  Thanks.  Jim Holtman also was pointing to 
the sample() function.  I'm used to making all random numbers from runif() 
because I use that kind of tactic in a lot of different languages.

Sample() is faster, too.

Mike