ACroske <Audy3272 <at> yahoo.com> writes: > > > Ben: > Thanks for the reply. One further question, and this is where my novice > status at R shows through. The code makes sense, but what would I put it for > "m"? Is it the same number for all three (that was my first thought since it > was the same placeholder for all three). Number of rows in the matrix is 56. > There are 2576 total cells (observations). Each cell has its own > probability. > Thanks for your help! > > > > > matrix(rbinom(length(m),prob=m,size=1),nrow=nrow(m)) > > > > or (perhaps marginally more efficiently?) > > > > y <- (runif(m)<m) > > storage.mode(y) <- "double" > >
m is your matrix of probabilities; for example, you might do m = as.matrix(read.table("mystuff.txt")) (or import it from ArcGIS, or whatever). length(m) will be computed automatically (=2576), as will nrow(m) (=56). Erik Iverson's solution should work too, but I think mine will be much more efficient -- picking a whole slug of random numbers at once is much faster than looping and picking them one at a time. Ben Bolker ______________________________________________ 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.