[BioC] random number->random integer

Seth Falcon sfalcon at fhcrc.org
Thu Nov 30 01:30:02 CET 2006


"D.Enrique ESCOBAR ESPINOZA" <escobarebio at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi
> I want to generate a random integer from 1 to 654,
> is there any function that can provide a random real between 0&1
> [0,1]
> that I can multiply by 654 and perform the ceiling() or floor() to
> get an integer from that?

This is more of an R-help question.

If you want a random integer between 1 and 654:

sample(1:654, 1)

You may also be interested in runif()

+ seth



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