[R] generate ordered categorical variable in R

[Bert Gunter]

Yikes! The uniform distribution is a **continuous** distribution over
an interval. You seem to want to sample over a discrete distribution.
See ?sample for that, as in:

sample(1:4,100,rep=TRUE)

## or for this special case and faster

sample.int(4,size=100,rep=TRUE)

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:11 AM, thanoon younis
<thanoon.younis80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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