Well, kinda that's what I'm looking for. I was just hoping to assign a random number to a variable and write a function around that to determine the coin toss...something like:
r = some random number if r modulus 2 = 0 then heads else tails repeat... ...buy your little one line ditty will do more than well enough! Thanks. I'm new to R and statistics in general...got this little workbook/textbook type of thing here. One of the questions is "write a computer program that simulates the flipping of a coin n times" Thanks again, Joshua Gramlich Chicago, IL ----- Original Message ----- From: "J.R. Lockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joshua Gramlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "J.R. Lockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [R] random number generation > what do you mean by single? > dichotomous? > > if so then > sample(c(0,1),size=100,replace=T) > > will get you 100 tosses of a fair coin. > > you can change the probabilities with the "prob" argument. > > also you can expand c(0,1) to any number of outcomes. > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Joshua Gramlich wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:58:35 -0600 > > From: Joshua Gramlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [R] random number generation > > > > Can a single random number be generated in R? I have an exercise that wants > > to simulate coin tosses, and I cannot seem to find a good example of the use > > of random number generation in R. Any help? > > > > > > Joshua Gramlich > > Chicago, IL > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > > J.R. Lockwood > 412-683-2300 x4941 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.rand.org/methodology/stat/members/lockwood/ [[alternate HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
