Thank you so much Teds for pviding this function. Would you please explain the theory behind that?
 
Thanks,

--- On Fri, 18/6/10, Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:


From: Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk>
Subject: [OOPS] Re: [R] Drawing sample from a circle
To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Cc: "Ron Michael" <ron_michael70@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, 18 June, 2010, 4:48 PM


OOPS: AN error on the code below! See in-line.
Ted.

On 18-Jun-10 09:33:04, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 18-Jun-10 08:04:36, Ron Michael wrote:
>> Hi, I would like to draw 10 uniformly distributed sample points from a
>> circle with redius one and centered at (0,0). Is there any R function
>> to do that?
>> _
>> Thanks,
> 
> You can quite easily write one.
> 
> [A]
> Sampling uniformly on the circumference of the circle:
> 
>   csamp <- function(n,rad=1,centre=c(0,0)){
>     x0 <- centre[1] ; y0 <- centre[2]
>     u <- 2*pi*runif(n)
>     rad*cbind(x=cos(u)+x0, y=sin(u)+y0)
>   }
> 
># Returns an nx2 matrix whose two columns are the x and y coordinates
CORRECTION:

  csamp <- function(n,rad=1,centre=c(0,0)){
    x0 <- centre[1] ; y0 <- centre[2]
    u <- 2*pi*runif(n)
    cbind(x=rad*cos(u)+x0, y=rad*sin(u)+y0)
  }

# Returns an nx2 matrix whose two columns are the x and y coordinates

> [B]
> Sampling uniformaly within the circle
> 
>   Csamp <- function(n,rad=1,centre=c(0,0)){
>     x0 <- centre[1] ; y0 <- centre[2]
>     u <- 2*pi*runif(n)
>     r <- sqrt(runif(n))
>     rad*cbind(x=r*cos(u)+x0, y=r*sin(u)+y0)
> }
> 
># Returns an nx2 matrix whose two columns are the x and y coordinates
CORRECTION:

  Csamp <- function(n,rad=1,centre=c(0,0)){
    x0 <- centre[1] ; y0 <- centre[2]
    u <- 2*pi*runif(n)
    r <- sqrt(runif(n))
    cbind(x=rad*r*cos(u)+x0, y=rad*r*sin(u)+y0)
}

# Returns an nx2 matrix whose two columns are the x and y coordinates


> [C]
> Examples:
> 
>   plot(csamp(100),asp=1)
> 
>   plot(Csamp(1000),asp=1)
> 
> Ted.
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