Re: [R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread Carl Witthoft
Well, to be mathematically correct, you cannot choose random real numbers for the simple reason that we don't even have names for all the reals. As all of you know (I hope :-) ), there are the same number (aleph-1) of reals in any length line segment you wish. Aside from the unlikelihood that

Re: [R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Paul Hiemstra wrote: > frederik vanhaelst wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> How could i generate random real numbers between 0 en 2*pi? >> >> Thanks, > > Googeling for "R generate random number" gave this as a second hit (on my > machine): > > http://blog.revolution-computing

Re: [R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Hiemstra
frederik vanhaelst wrote: Hi, How could i generate random real numbers between 0 en 2*pi? Thanks, Frederik [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read

Re: [R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread Rubén Roa
-Mensaje original- De: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] En nombre de Rubén Roa Enviado el: martes, 02 de marzo de 2010 14:13 Para: frederik vanhaelst; r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Asunto: Re: [R] Random real numbers >From what distribution? If the uniform

Re: [R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread Rubén Roa
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Re: [R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread jim holtman
> runif(20,0,2*pi) [1] 1.29417642 1.10933879 4.31669186 2.41339484 4.83705630 3.12713657 4.50893007 6.23232980 2.38783146 4.88483239 5.87292617 [12] 1.33293077 4.09458703 0.7593 1.67899698 2.42602639 0.08413394 2.40261439 5.46442874 2.13847582 > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:51 AM, frederik vanha

Re: [R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:51:39 +0100 frederik vanhaelst wrote: > How could i generate random real numbers between 0 en 2*pi? Ten such numbers from the uniform distribution: 2*pi*runif(10) -- Karl Ove Hufthammer __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list ht

[R] Random real numbers

2010-03-02 Thread frederik vanhaelst
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