[R] generate random number

[Friedrich Leisch]

>>>>> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:31:52 +0100,
>>>>> Kaspar Pflugshaupt (KP) wrote:

  > On Wednesday 21 March 2001 02:15, Yu-Ling Wu wrote:
  >> Hi,
  >> 
  >> I want to pick 3 "integer" random numbers from 1 to
  >> 10. How to do this?

  > as.integer(runif(3)*10+1)


better :

sample(1:10, size=3, replace=TRUE)

[because also working on general vectors, not only integers, as e.g.,

sample(letters, size=3, replace=TRUE)

]

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