You can use the statements ``while( I < 523 || I > 535)'' instead. It will work fine.
Guo-Hao Huang -------------------------------------------------- From: "Hongwei Dong" <pdxd...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 10:59 AM To: "R-help Forum" <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: [R] set condition in R Hi, R users, I'm using while() in R to set a condition. My condition is: i<523 or i>535. How should I write this in R? I try "while (i<523 or i>535)" and it does not work. Thanks. Garry On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Hongwei Dong <pdxd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Exactly! Thanks, Duncan. > > Let me re-phrase me question like this: > > 1) X_i values are independent Gammas, with the shape 0.067 and scale 0.008 > 2) Min(X)=1 and Max(X)=85 > 3) SUM(X)=2000 > 4) Do I also have to define the number of draws? if yes, it could be 250. > > Based on these restrictions, I want to generate random draw. I'm wondering > how I can do this in R. Thanks. > > Garry > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca > >wrote: > > > On 11/10/2009 1:25 PM, Hongwei Dong wrote: > > > >> Hi, Dear R users, > >> > >> I'm wondering if I can do Monte Carlo Simulation in R. My problem is > like > >> this: I know variable X follows Gamma distribution with shape parameter > >> 0.067 and scale parameter 0.008. The sum of the X is 2000. I need R > >> help > >> me > >> to simulate a vector of X that satisfies both the probability > distribution > >> and the sum. Anyone has a clue to this? Much appreciated. > >> > > > > Your requirements are slightly contradictory or incomplete. Here's one > way > > to fully specify the problem: > > > > The X_i values are independent Gammas, with the given shape and scale. > You > > want to simulate from the joint distribution conditional on the event > sum(X) > > == 2000. > > > > Is that your problem? I don't know how to do the simulation, but maybe > > someone else does. > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > [[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. > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.