[R] Matrix output from drawing functions

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil.kjernsmo at astro.uio.no> writes:

> but I figured that if I go:
> > rpois(10,1:10)
> I would get a 10x10 matrix as output, with random values for each of
> the vector elements in the row vectors, but I'm getting 
>  [1]  3  4  3  4  6  9 10  6 11  9
> so, that is obviously not the case... :-) BTW, what am I getting...?

try plot(rpois(100,1:100)) and I think you'll see the light...

> So, is there a simple way of doing this...? If not, would it be reasonable
> for me to request this as a feature in future releases?

matrix(rpois(100,rep(1:10,10)),10,byrow=T) should do it. 

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