Hi Vie, Something like the following should be fine:
## R Start... > n<-1 > my.min <- 0 > my.max <- 0.7 > runif(n, my.min, my.max) [1] 0.01145260 ## R end. see ?runif for details. Hope that helps a little, Tony Breyal On 9 Feb, 14:40, Vie <wxv...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > Ive been trying to find a function that will allow me to pull out a number > between a minimum and maximum threshold. > > I want a random decimal number between, for example, 0 and 0.5 or 0 and 0.7. > I've been searching everywhere for a function that will allow me to do this > in R, but I have yet to be successful. Any help would be much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > > -- > View this message in > context:http://www.nabble.com/Choosing-a-random-number-between-x-and-y-tp2191... > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://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.
