Dear R Expert
 
allow me to ask a quick qestion: I have a mean value of 6 and a SD of 3 describing my distribution. I would like to "convert" this distribution into a log normal distribution that would best describe it when resimulated using log normal distribution. Currently I am using another software to estimate the respective mean and SD on the log scale and the results are: 1.6667 and SD 0.47071. Then, to best reproduce my original distribution in R, I use the following commands:
 
c <- rlnorm(5000,1.6667,0.47071)
d <- exp(c)
mean(c)
sd(c)
 
and the results for mean and SD are 5.92 and 2.94 (original 6 and 3), respectively, which I am reasonably happy with. I would like to grow independent of the another software I use, but am unable to figure out how to generate the values of 1.6667 and 0.47071 using R. could someone please help me with this question?
 
thanks,
 
Andras
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