Generate more than you need and then just keep 500 of them: > x <- rnorm(3000) # make sure we have enough > y <- x[(x > -1.5) & (x < 1.5)][1:500] # keep 500 0f them > hist(y) >
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:35 PM, dxc13 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > useR's, > > I want to randomly generate 500 numbers from the standard normal > distribution, i.e. N(0,1), but I only want them to be generated in the range > -1.5 to 1.5. Does anyone have a simple way to do this? > > Thanks, > > dxc13 > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/simple-random-number-generation-tp18642611p18642611.html > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.
