Jonathan Wang wrote:

I have a question related to matrix().

The code below randomly generates 3 Poisson numbers into a 3 by 1 matrix:


matrix1 <- matrix(rpois(3,lambda=2),nrow=3,ncol=1)


And I use list() to see what they are:

[,1]

[1,] 3

[2,] 1

[3,] 4

, which is what I had intended.


For sure you used print(), but not list() ...



I then I want to randomly generate y Normal numbers into a 3 by 8 matrix. y in this case would be 3, 1, and 4; so the resulting matrix should be such that the first row has three different Normal numbers; the second row has 1 Normal number; and the third row has four different Normal numbers. I have the following code to do that:


matrix2 <- matrix(rnorm(poisNums),nrow=3,ncol=8)


To my surprise, matrix2 does not look anything like what I had intended. Instead, it repeats the values in the first column (of the matrix2) eight times. What part of the code do I need to fix?

You don't want to use a matrix here, but a list:


list2 <- apply(matrix1, 1, rnorm)

Please read "An Introduction to R" and learn a bit more on data structures in R ...

Uwe Ligges





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