After scouring the online R resources and help pages, I still need clarification on the function rmultinomial(). I would like to create a vector, say of 100 elements, where every element in the vector can take on the value of 0, 1 or 2, and where each of those values have a specific probability. ie. the probability a given element in the vector = 0 is 0.06, 1 = 0.38, 2 = 0.56 (probabilities sum to 1). Can I use rmultinomial() function to do this?
The following code does not seem to produce the result I need, but this sort of code is all I could find the R "help" pages: > rmultinomial(100,c(0.06,0.38,0.56)) [1] 3 29 68 > rmultinomial(100,c(0.06,0.38,0.56),long=TRUE) [1] 3 3 2 2 3 2 3 3 2 3 2 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 2 3 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 3 3 2 1 3 3 1 [52] 2 3 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 1 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 2 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 Also, I don't really understand the difference between the default long=FALSE and long=TRUE. The R "help" simply states that you use "long TRUE to choose one generator, FALSE to choose another one"; however I could not find any documentation that described what the difference between those generators is. Any clarification would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Mary ______________________________________________ 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.
