On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 13-Dec-05 Uwe Ligges wrote: >> Davia Cox wrote: >> [...] >>> My question is in order to run a true random sample, >> >> We have to disappoint you: Your computer cannot generate >> "true random samples". > > At least on Linux (and probably most Unix) systems, > /dev/random must be a pretty good approximation (provided > you don't over-work it ... ).
See library(accuracy) ?trueRandom (for some definition of 'true'). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
