Hi Ashta,

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Ashta <> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I have the matrix called  'X' with 200 rows and 12 variables.   I want to
> create 2 new variables (V1 and V2) based on random number generator
>
> p1<-rnorm(200. mean=0, std=1)
> p2<-rnorm(200. mean=0, std=1)
>
                      ^^^^^^^

You are using "." instead of ",".

HTH,
Jorge



> x <- cbind(x, v1=ifelse(x[,'p1'] > 0.4, 1, 0), v2=ifelse(x[,'p2'] > 0.6, 0,
> 1))
>
> I found the following error message
> *Error: unexpected symbol in "p1<-rnorm(200. mean"
>
> Any help?
>
> *
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