Why not push it a bit? theProbs <- runif(10000,0,1) youreON <- rbinom(length(theProbs), 1, theProbs) ## note difference
________________________________________ From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Henrique Dallazuanna [www...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 June 2009 10:17 To: Economics Guy Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Running a function through a vector with the scalars as arguments Try this: sapply(theProbs, rbinom, size = 1, n = 1) You are using probsFoo in lapply, I don't know what is this. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Economics Guy <economics....@gmail.com>wrote: > I have a vector of probabilities that I would like to feed to rbinom() > and have it return a 1 or 0 for each element. I have tried simply > using the entire vector as the argument hoping R would understand. > Instead I get a scalar: > > > theProbs <- runif(10,0,1) > youreON <- rbinom(1, 1, theProbs) > > > > Next I tried using the apply function but I could not get that to work > either: > > > youreON2 <- lapply(probsFoo,rbinom, n=1, size=1, prob=theProbs)) > > > I normally would just write a loop to run down the vector and spit out > the new vector but I am trying to learn to live without loops. Is > there any way to make this work with some flavor of apply? > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
