Here's how to generate a million psample <- rpois(1000000, lambda = 20)
so guess how you would generate one. The main point is that if you really want to generate more than one, do it all at once like the above, do not do it in a loop. Bill Venables CSIRO Laboratories PO Box 120, Cleveland, 4163 AUSTRALIA Office Phone (email preferred): +61 7 3826 7251 Fax (if absolutely necessary): +61 7 3826 7304 Mobile: +61 4 8819 4402 Home Phone: +61 7 3286 7700 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cmis.csiro.au/bill.venables/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of alfieim29 Sent: Saturday, 1 December 2007 6:21 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Generating a value How do I generate a value in R from a poisson distribution with mean 20? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Generating-a-value-tf4922234.html#a14086120 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
