Re: [R] help about random generation of a Normal distribution of

2008-07-06 Thread Ted Harding
Bill, while your point is a fair one, as far as it goes, I (and no doubt others) often run R on low-powered hardware, and therefore like to restrict overload. MASS is quite a big package. I've no dispute with your statement that MASS is both recommended and universally available. And it is valuabl

Re: [R] help about random generation of a Normal distribution of several variables

2008-07-05 Thread Peng Jiang
Hi , Arnau Did you ever check your mailbox? your question was answered last night Beijing time. :) Just read the following . - There is no need to load the MASS library, since the code for mvrnorm therein is compact and self-contained: mvrnorm <- function (n=1, mu, Si

[R] help about random generation of a Normal distribution of several variables

2008-07-05 Thread Arnau Mir Torres
Hello. Somebody knows how can I generate a set of n random vectors of a normal distribution of several variables? For example, I want to generate n=100 random vectors of two dimensions for a normal with mean c(0,1) and variance matrix: matrix(c(2,1,1,3),2,2). Thanks in advance, Arnau

Re: [R] help about random generation of a Normal distribution of

2008-07-05 Thread Ted Harding
There is no need to load the MASS library, since the code for mvrnorm therein is compact and self-contained: mvrnorm <- function (n=1, mu, Sigma, tol=1e-06, empirical=FALSE) { p <- length(mu) if(!all(dim(Sigma) == c(p, p))) stop("incompatible arguments") eS <- eigen(Sigma, symmetric =

Re: [R] help about random generation of a Normal distribution of several variables

2008-07-05 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 18:21 +0200, Arnau Mir wrote: > Hello. > > Somebody knows how can I generate a set of n random vectors of a normal > distribution of several variables? > For example, I want to generate n=100 random vectors of two dimensions for > a normal with mean c(0,1) and variance mat

Re: [R] help about random generation of a Normal distribution of several variables

2008-07-05 Thread Peng Jiang
Hi, Arnau, mvrnorm() in MASS library is what you need. ? mvrnorm to see the detail but first you need to load the MASS library, i.e,library(MASS) regards/ On 2008-7-6, at 上午12:21, Arnau Mir wrote: Hello. Somebody knows how can I generate a set of n random vectors of a normal distribu

[R] help about random generation of a Normal distribution of several variables

2008-07-05 Thread Arnau Mir
Hello. Somebody knows how can I generate a set of n random vectors of a normal distribution of several variables? For example, I want to generate n=100 random vectors of two dimensions for a normal with mean c(0,1) and variance matrix: matrix(c(2,1,1,3),2,2). Thanks in advance, Arnau. _