[R] Alternate to for-loop

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Mon Feb 16 15:25:21 CET 2009



megh wrote:
> No, it is not homework. I obviously


For some value of "obvious" as you has not given a single line of code 
as the posting guide suggests.

You probably want:

replicate(10, mean(rnorm(100)))

Uwe Ligges


> could do that using a for-loop, and that
> I already did. However I thought whether there could be a better approach as
> it was looking very messy and unprofessional.
> 
> 
> 
> Uwe Ligges-3 wrote:
>>
>>
>> megh wrote:
>>> Hi, I am trying to create a vector of length 10 (say), wherein each
>>> element
>>> will be average of random sample of size 100, from a distribution, say
>>> Normal. Can anyone please tell me without creating a "for" loop, how I
>>> can
>>> do that?
>>
>> Homework? Then please ask you course material or teacher.
>>
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>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
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