Re: [R] random number generation

2015-11-11 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear Leila Does the function mvrnorm in package MASS do what you want? On 11/11/2015 08:38, leila zamani via R-help wrote: Hi every one, I'm new to R. I read about R and search all the packages but I couldn't find the package that I want. I want to generate 2D (matrices) random numbers that

Re: [R] random number generation

2015-11-11 Thread Karim Mezhoud
Hi, This generate matrix: matrix( rnorm(5*4,mean=0,sd=1), 5, 4) for correlated matrix please see this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10680658/how-can-i-create-a-correlation-matrix-in-r Karim On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:38 AM, leila zamani via R-help < r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Hi

[R] random number generation

2015-11-11 Thread leila zamani via R-help
Hi every one, I'm new to R. I read about R and search all the packages but I couldn't find the package that I want. I want to generate 2D (matrices) random numbers that have correlation between them. One of my friends said that R has a function in geor like rand...(spherical (correlation

Re: [R] Random number generation

2011-07-22 Thread Daniel Nordlund
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Murphy Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:55 PM To: karena Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Random number generation Hi: Here's one way using uniform(0, 1

Re: [R] Random number generation

2011-07-22 Thread karena
Thank you guys for all the help. I appreciate! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Random-number-generation-tp3685463p3686392.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

[R] Random number generation

2011-07-21 Thread karena
Hi, I want to generate multiple sets of random numbers. The requirement is that: 1) each set have 3 random numbers; 2) the sum of the three number is always 1. how to do this? thank you, karena -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] Random number generation

2011-07-21 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 07/21/2011 07:18 PM, karena wrote: Hi, I want to generate multiple sets of random numbers. The requirement is that: 1) each set have 3 random numbers; 2) the sum of the three number is always 1. how to do this? Try this: df-data.frame(a=runif(10),b=runif(10)) df$c=df$a+df$b

Re: [R] Random number generation

2011-07-21 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 07/21/2011 08:04 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: On 07/21/2011 07:18 PM, karena wrote: Hi, I want to generate multiple sets of random numbers. The requirement is that: 1) each set have 3 random numbers; 2) the sum of the three number is always 1. how to do this? Try this:

Re: [R] Random number generation

2011-07-21 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 21/07/2011 7:18 PM, karena wrote: Hi, I want to generate multiple sets of random numbers. The requirement is that: 1) each set have 3 random numbers; 2) the sum of the three number is always 1. how to do this? There are lots of ways. What is the context? It would determine the first

Re: [R] Random number generation

2011-07-21 Thread Rolf Turner
Could this possibly be a homework question? cheers, Rolf Turner On 22/07/11 11:18, karena wrote: Hi, I want to generate multiple sets of random numbers. The requirement is that: 1) each set have 3 random numbers; 2) the sum of the three number is always 1. how to do this?

Re: [R] Random number generation

2011-07-21 Thread karena
To Jason: Still thank you, your reply gives me some clue about how to do this. To Duncan: Thank you for rely. It helped. Karena -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Random-number-generation-tp3685463p3685821.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at

Re: [R] Random number generation

2011-07-21 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Here's one way using uniform(0, 1) pseudo-random numbers, but there are many ways you could go about this. # each row comprises a set of three pseudo-random numbers u - matrix(runif(30), nrow = 10) # divide each element in a row by its row sum v - t(apply(u, 1, function(x) x/sum(x)))

[R] Random Number Generation in a Loop

2009-12-16 Thread Maithili Shiva
Dear R helpers   I am having following data   Name   Numbers A  25 B   3  C  13 A   5  B   7 C   0 A   2 B 10 C   9   CONDITIONS   If Name is

Re: [R] Random Number Generation in a Loop

2009-12-16 Thread Daniel Malter
- -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Maithili Shiva Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:25 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Random Number Generation in a Loop Dear R helpers I am having following data

[R] Random number generation for Generalized Logistic distribution

2009-02-24 Thread Maithili Shiva
Dear R helpers How to generate random numbers for (a) Generalized logistic distribution (b) Generalized normal distribution (c) Pearson Type III distribution (d) Kappa Thanks in advance Maithili __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] Random number generation for Generalized Logistic distribution

2009-02-24 Thread William Asquith
See the lmom package by J.R.M Hosking or lmomco package by W.H.Asquith -wha On Feb 24, 2009, at 5:46 AM, Maithili Shiva wrote: Dear R helpers How to generate random numbers for (a) Generalized logistic distribution (b) Generalized normal distribution (c) Pearson Type III distribution

[R] Random Number Generation using (Generalized) Extreme Value distribution and Pareto distribution

2008-12-18 Thread Maithili Shiva
Hi R helpers, Is there any function in R, which generates random numbers in case of (1) Generalized Extreme Value distribution and (2) Generalized PAreto distribution for the respective given set of parameters? Regards Maithili __

Re: [R] Random Number Generation using (Generalized) Extreme Value distribution and Pareto distribution

2008-12-18 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Dear Maithili, For (1) see [1] and for (2) see page 24 in [2]. HTH, Jorge [1] http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/ISdidactique/Rhelp/library/evd/html/gev.html [2] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fExtremes/fExtremes.pdf On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Maithili Shiva

[R] R random number generation

2008-10-23 Thread hiphop
should get similar output for all sizes which means i should get 30 sequences.but am getting only one sequence .please help. this is my code y=0; for (i in 1:3) { while(y!=i) { y=sample(1:3,replace=TRUE); } } -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/R-random-number-generation

Re: [R] R random number generation

2008-10-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 23-Oct-08 19:58:12, hiphop wrote: i have to generate random numbers from length 2 to 30 and length two should have the numbers 1,2 and length 3 should have the numbers 1,2,3 so on and so forth till size 30. i should get an sequence like 221 or 112 till both the values appear and

Re: [R] R random number generation

2008-10-23 Thread hiphop
sequences.but am getting only one sequence .please help. this is my code y=0; for (i in 1:3) { while(y!=i) { y=sample(1:3,replace=TRUE); } } -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/R-random-number-generation-tp20138441p20142412.html Sent from the R help mailing list

Re: [R] R random number generation

2008-10-23 Thread markleeds
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Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-08-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Please don't cross-post. I've replied in R-devel. On 8/5/2008 8:47 AM, subramanian R wrote: Hi All, I have a few queries regarding Random Number generation in R. according to the help(Random.User) i defined my own functions for user_unif_rand and user_norm_rand (uniform

[R] Random number generation

2008-07-31 Thread Max
Hi Everyone, I did a quick search of the list and it looks like this may not have been asked before... I'm trying to generate a matrix of random numbers between 0 and 1, with 6 columns, 1 rows. About all I know is that runif(1) gives me the random number I'm looking for. Any help would

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-07-31 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 07/31/2008 12:24 PM Max wrote: Hi Everyone, I did a quick search of the list and it looks like this may not have been asked before... I'm trying to generate a matrix of random numbers between 0 and 1, with 6 columns, 1 rows. About all I know is that runif(1) gives me the random number

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-07-31 Thread Max
Marc, this is very handy. My next question is, do you know a quick and easy way to transfer all of the output to a txt file? (or .xls)? Thanks, -Max Marc Schwartz explained on 07/31/2008 : on 07/31/2008 12:24 PM Max wrote: Hi Everyone, I did a quick search of the list and it looks like

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-07-31 Thread Jorge Ivan Velez
Hi Max, See ?write.table. Perhaps: MAT - matrix(runif(1 * 6), 1, 6) # TXT format write.table(MAT, C:/yourmatrix.txt,col.names=FALSE,row.names=FALSE,quote=FALSE) # XLS format write.table(MAT, C:/yourmatrix.xls,col.names=FALSE,row.names=FALSE,quote=FALSE,sep=\t) HTH, Jorge On Thu,

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-07-31 Thread Patrizio Frederic
?write.table could help PF 2008/7/31 Max [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marc, this is very handy. My next question is, do you know a quick and easy way to transfer all of the output to a txt file? (or .xls)? Thanks, -Max Marc Schwartz explained on 07/31/2008 : on 07/31/2008 12:24 PM Max wrote:

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-07-31 Thread David Barron
m - runif(6) mm - matrix(m, ncol=6) HTH Dave On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, I did a quick search of the list and it looks like this may not have been asked before... I'm trying to generate a matrix of random numbers between 0 and 1, with 6

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-07-31 Thread Max
This is perfect, thanks! :) Jorge Ivan Velez pretended : Hi Max, See ?write.table. Perhaps: MAT - matrix(runif(1 * 6), 1, 6) # TXT format write.table(MAT, C:/yourmatrix.txt,col.names=FALSE,row.names=FALSE,quote=FALSE) # XLS format write.table(MAT,

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-05-13 Thread Jim Lemon
On Behalf Of Esmail Bonakdarian wrote: ... What I read doesn't seem to be incorrect however (it may even have been an archived message here), the *language* itself does not seem to support block *comments*. Using conditional constructs, or an IDE/editor to achieve similar results is a work

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-05-13 Thread Esmail Bonakdarian
Greg Snow wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Esmail Bonakdarian Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 7:25 AM To: Prof Brian Ripley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Random number generation [snip] What I read doesn't seem

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-05-13 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
Esmail Bonakdarian: you could always run your R scripts through the C preproccessor and have it strip the block comments for you. Too much work, call me old school, but I like the computer do work for me, rather than the other way around Most editors (and every editor worth using)

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-05-13 Thread Greg Snow
-Original Message- From: Esmail Bonakdarian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:13 AM To: Greg Snow Cc: Prof Brian Ripley; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Random number generation Greg Snow wrote: -Original Message- [snip] you could always run

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-05-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 5/13/2008 1:38 PM, Greg Snow wrote: -Original Message- From: Esmail Bonakdarian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:13 AM To: Greg Snow Cc: Prof Brian Ripley; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Random number generation Greg Snow wrote: -Original Message

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-05-12 Thread Greg Snow
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Esmail Bonakdarian Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 7:25 AM To: Prof Brian Ripley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Random number generation [snip] What I read doesn't seem to be incorrect however

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-05-11 Thread Stephan Kolassa
Dennis, I assume that there is a set.seed() somewhere in your script, possibly in something you source()d (hopefully not in anything library()d). Have you tried successively removing/commenting parts of the script before the sample() command until the problem goes away? That way you should

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-05-11 Thread Esmail Bonakdarian
Stephan Kolassa wrote: Have you tried successively removing/commenting parts of the script before the sample() command until the problem goes away? That way you should be able to pinpoint the offending script command. Hi, This brings up a question I have .. is there a way to do *block*

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-05-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 11 May 2008, Esmail Bonakdarian wrote: Stephan Kolassa wrote: Have you tried successively removing/commenting parts of the script before the sample() command until the problem goes away? That way you should be able to pinpoint the offending script command. Hi, This brings up a

Re: [R] Random number generation

2008-05-11 Thread Esmail Bonakdarian
Hello there, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2008, Esmail Bonakdarian wrote: Stephan Kolassa wrote: Have you tried successively removing/commenting parts of the script before the sample() command until the problem goes away? That way you should be able to pinpoint the offending

[R] Random number generation

2008-05-10 Thread Dennis Fisher
Colleagues, I have encountered behavior of random number generation that eludes me. I generate a random integer in a particular range using the following code: sample(1000:, size=1) This code exists within a script that starts with the command: remove(list=ls()) Each time