There is a version of sample especially for integers: > Q1 <- matrix(sample.int(4, 200, replace=TRUE), 200) > str(Q1) int [1:200, 1] 1 4 4 2 3 3 4 4 2 3 ...
------------------------------------- David L Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77840-4352 -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of thanoon younis Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 12:11 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] generate ordered categorical variable in R Dear R- users I want to generate ordered categorical variable vector with 200x1 dimension and from 1 to 4 categories and i tried with this code Q1=runif(200,1,4) the results are not just 1 ,2 3,4, but the results with decimals like 1.244, 2.342,4,321 and so on ... My question how can i generate a vector and also a matrix with orered categorical variables and without decimals just 1,2,3 ,4 ,1,2,3,4, .... Many thanks in advance -- Thanoon Y. Thanoon PhD Candidate Department of Mathematical Sciences Faculty of Science University Technology Malaysia, UTM E.Mail: thanoon.youni...@gmail.com E.Mail: dawn_praye...@yahoo.com Facebook:Thanoon Younis AL-Shakerchy Twitter: Thanoon Alshakerchy H.P:00601127550205 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
