[R] generate randomly a value of a vector

[Patrick Breheny]

On 09/08/2011 04:42 AM, Boris Beranger wrote:
> I have a zero vector of length N and I would like to randomly allocate the
> value 1 to one of the values of this vector. I presume I have to use the
> uniform distribution but could someone tell me how I should process?

rmultinom(m,1,rep(1,N))

where m is the number of random vectors you wish to generate in this manner.

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Patrick Breheny
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Department of Statistics
University of Kentucky