Here's how to generate a million psample <- rpois(1000000, lambda = 20) so guess how you would generate one. The main point is that if you really want to generate more than one, do it all at once like the above, do not do it in a loop. Bill Venables CSIRO Laboratories PO Box 120, Cleveland, 4163 AUSTRALIA Office Phone (email preferred): +61 7 3826 7251 Fax (if absolutely necessary): +61 7 3826 7304 Mobile: +61 4 8819 4402 Home Phone: +61 7 3286 7700 mailto:Bill.Venables at csiro.au http://www.cmis.csiro.au/bill.venables/ -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of alfieim29 Sent: Saturday, 1 December 2007 6:21 AM To: r-help at r-project.org Subject: [R] Generating a value How do I generate a value in R from a poisson distribution with mean 20? Thanks!
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