Re: [Pdl-general] Generating a vector of random integers

2018-04-06 Thread Craig DeForest
Welcome, William! You are probably looking for “random()”, which has the same syntax as “zeroes()” but returns a vector of pseudorandom values on [0,1). To make a vector of a million of those, use “$a = random(1e6)”. To make random integers based on a histogram that you already have in-hand, a

[Pdl-general] Generating a vector of random integers

2018-04-06 Thread William Schmidt
Hello Piddlers, I am moving from R to PDL, with tons of experience with Perl, lots with R but zero with PDL, so this is a pretty basic question. I can see from the PDL Book that PDL is very sophisticated, with much more functionality than I will ever use, but I want to master basic PDL to