On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csa...@rmki.kfki.hu> wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Debbie Zhang <debbie0...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Dear R users, >> >> Can anyone please tell me how to generate a large number of samples in R, >> given certain distribution and size. >> >> For example, if I want to generate 1000 samples of size n=100, with a N(0,1) >> distribution, how should I proceed? >> >> (Since I dont want to do "rnorm(100,0,1)" in R for 1000 times) > > Why not? It took 0.05 seconds on my 5 years old laptop.
Second-guessing the user, I think she maybe doesn't want to type in 'rnorm(100,0,1)' 1000 times... Soln - "for" loop: > z=list() > for(i in 1:1000){z[[i]]=rnorm(100,0,1)} now inspect the individual bits: > hist(z[[1]]) > hist(z[[545]]) If that's the problem, then I suggest she reads an introduction to R... Barry ______________________________________________ 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.