A coding question involving variable assignments
Thank you! That was helpful. Another thing I learned was that I would need to do set.seed(99) not once but twice in this context.
On 8/11/05, ecatchpole <e.catchpole at adfa.edu.au> wrote:
On 12/08/05 13:27, xpRt.wannabe wrote,:
Ted and List, What I need is I need to know what max of rnorm(rpois(1,10)) is before R does sum(), replicate(10, ...) and replicate(5, ...). The fact that you have set.seed(99) twice, does that mean, say, entry [1,1] 0.4896243 in 'mx' is one of the z number of values generated by rnorm(rpois(1,10)) that add up to [1,1] -2.0071674 in 'x'? Another way to ask the question, I guess, is, by doing set.seed(99) twice are the values generated by rnorm(rpois(1,10)) for 'x' same as those for 'mx'?
Yes, that's the reason for having a set.seed() function. Ted. -- Dr E.A. Catchpole Visiting Fellow Univ of New South Wales at ADFA, Canberra, Australia and University of Kent, Canterbury, England - www.ma.adfa.edu.au/~eac - fax: +61 2 6268 8786 - ph: +61 2 6268 8895