Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Joe Hughes
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 10:40 AM
> To: R-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] New to R
>
> Hello All,
>
> A colleague of mine started working with R and out of curiosity I
> did
> some research on the language. Very nice. In my opinion this is one
> of the best languages I've found for getting tasks I'm interested in
> done. I wrote this simple die roller and was curious to know if it is
> R enough.
>
> #######################################################################
> #######
> #
> # Input:
> # die_size - 4, 6, 8, 10, 20
> # number_of_dice - How many dice to roll
> # number_of_rolls - How many times to roll the dice
> #
> # Output:
> # rolls - The array holding the values of the dice
> #
> #######################################################################
> #######
> #
> function(die_size, number_of_dice, number_of_rolls)
> {
> rolls <- array(0, dim=c(number_of_rolls, number_of_dice))
>
> for (i in 1:number_of_rolls)
> {
> rolls[i,] <- sample(die_size, number_of_dice, replace=TRUE)
> }
>
> return(rolls)
> }
>
> Any thoughts on this function? Is there a better way of doing it in
> R? Can you tell I used to play AD&D?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
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