[R] Distributions.

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Mohamed A. Kerasha wrote:

> What are the supported distributions in R and where to look for them?. 

help.search("distribution")

and look also at packages SuppDists, evd, gld and sn amongst others.

> Also,
> is it possible to generate cyclic arrivals in R. For example, arrival
> patterns that
> correlates with time of the day.

Yes, it is possible, provided you have a complete description.  R is after 
all a fully-fledged programming language.

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