How to generate fake population (ie. not sample) data?

My understanding is that rnorm(n, x, s) will give me an n-sized sample
from an (x, s) normal distribution. So the vector returned will have a
mean from the sampling distribution of the mean. But what I want is a
set of n numbers literally with a mean of x and sd of s.

I am at the very beginning of my R journey, so my apologies if this is
a particularly naive enquiry.

2009/3/4 David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>:

In what ways is rnorm not a satisfactory answer?

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David Winsemius

On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:33 PM, CB wrote:

This seems like it should be obvious, but searches I've tried all come
up with rnorm etc.

Is there a way of generating normally-distributed 'population' data
with known parameters?

Cheers, CB.

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