[R] runif with condition

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Mon Jan 9 16:27:46 CET 2012


On Jan 9, 2012, at 10:06 AM, arunkumar1111 wrote:

> Hi
> I want to generate 4 random number which sum up to 100 always

"Random" plus condition == "non-random"

Perhaps you want 3 "random" numbers conjoined to the difference of  
their sum and 100? Or perhaps you want 4 "random" numbers multiplied  
by 100/sum(.)

(In either case you will not be getting "4 random numbers".)

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT



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