[R] Head or Tails game

[William Dunlap]

Use a loop to run over the 10,000 reps and in each rep use
rle(x>=0) to look at the runs of nonnegative numbers, postprocessing
its output a bit to count them.

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


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> Subject: Re: [R] Head or Tails game
> 
> David,
> 
> set.seed(123)  # always good to make reproducible
> winnings <- sum(sample(c(-1,1), 10000, replace=TRUE))
> 
> Unfortunately, that's not the game. The game requires 40 flips of a coin.
> 
> Then you have to play the game 10,000 times.
> 
> D.
> 
> 
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