It probably doesn't make much difference in this small example, but maybe it's worth noting that **if possible** (it typically is not), things can be speeded up by generating all the random numbers at once then applying a vectorized operation to the entire ensemble. In this case, this becomes:
ran <- do.call(pmax,data.frame(matrix(rnorm(1e6),nr=1000))) pmax() is the vectorized operation. The do.call(...,data.frame(..))) construction must be used to satisfy the argument list requirements for pmax and do.call. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." H. Gilbert Welch On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:31 PM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > May be this helps: > set.seed(42) > vec1 <- sapply(1:1000,function(x) max(rnorm(1000,0,1))) > #or > set.seed(42) > vec2 <- replicate(1000,max(rnorm(1000,0,1))) > identical(vec1,vec2) > #[1] TRUE > > set.seed(598) > res <- sample(vec1,100,replace=FALSE) > > max(res) > #[1] 4.408794 > A.K. > > Hello I need some help in programming: > > I want to after take a rnorm(1000,0,1) sample want to save the > max of it in a vector, this was difficult to me, then I need to repeat > this process 1000 times, so I shall have 1000 maximum from the normal of > samples of size 1000. > Then I want to sample from this maximum series a new sample, this time of > size 100. > > I drive a programm: > > sample<-rnorm(1000,0,1) > for(i in 1:length(sample)){ > maxim<-vector(mode="numeric",length(sample)) > maxim[i]<-max(sample) > } > > then my result was a vector with n-1 zeroes and the last one > value was a maximum. I think it took the last value, but I don't know > how to repair it. > > I need most help, thanks > > > ______________________________________________ > 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.