[R] Drawing a random number

[William Dunlap]

sample( setdiff(10:1000, Vec), size=1)

Also, note that as.integer(runif(1, min, max)) will almost never return max.

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:14 AM Christofer Bogaso <
bogaso.christofer using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to draw an Integer from a range of [10, 1000] inclusive,
> however that random integer should be outside of a pre-defined vector of
> integers.
>
> Let say I draw an integer as below
>
> as.integer(runif(1, 10, 1000))
>
> and my pre-defined vector is
>
> Vec = c(563, 453, 897, 567)
>
> The policy is my drawn random integer should never be equal to any item
> from Vec
>
> Ofcourse I can use ifelse() to achieve the same, however I was wondering if
> there is any direct way to get the same.
>
> Thanks,
>
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