[Lign251] Quick 251 question

[Jacob Wieser]

Wow I feel stupid.  That's the last time I work on Syntax and Probability
homework at the same time. <-- is what you use in MS word to make it turn
into an arrow, and I apparently kept doing it once I switched back to 251
work.

Thanks though!
Jake


> Jacob Wieser wrote:
>> Hi again Roger-
>>
>> Ok, now I'm getting really confused. Either R is messing with me, or I
> just have no clue what I'm doing and it's working fine. I'm back working
> on #2, trying to generate my random samples, and just working on little
> parts of the code.
>>
>> I was trying to get the code down just for the random generation of a
> sample size of N in the uniform distribution:
>>
>> x <-- runif(50,0,1)
>> head(x)
>> [1] -0.5744449 -0.2941504 -0.5556475 -0.6154128 -0.5265833 -0.3995238
>>
>> Why are my numbers negative here? Am I missing something about how this
> function works?  Also,
>> x <-- runif(50,-1,0)
>>> head(x)
>> [1] 0.09497246 0.05768563 0.58514369 0.60508940 0.58766855 0.95039392
>>
>> are the (-1,0) not the parameters for the min and max for our
> distribution?
>
> Hi Jacob,
>
> The problem is that you need to use
>
>   <-
>
> as the assignment operator, not
>
>   <--
>
> which is being parsed as
>
>   <- -
>
> i.e., assign to -1 times whatever comes next :)
>
> Does that clear up the old hist() problem too?
>
> Roger
>
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