How do I generate a random sample with an given variance?

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:29:13 -0800 (PST), you wrote in message
<20010326192913.36803.qmail at web12001.mail.yahoo.com>:

Hi R gurus,


How do I generate a random sample with  a given
variance?

Generate a random sample, then rescale it to have the variance you
require.

Duncan Murdoch
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