[R] Dice simulation: Getting rep to re-evaluate sample()?

[Charles C. Berry]

See

 	?replicate

which I think is what you are after.

Chuck


On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Zembower, Kevin wrote:

> I'm trying to get R to simulate the sum of the values on 10 fair dice
> (yes, it's related to a homework problem, but is not the problem
> itself). I tried to do this:
>> rep(sum(sample(1:6,100,replace=T)), times=10)
> [1] 341 341 341 341 341 341 341 341 341 341
>
> and noticed that sum(sample()) seems to be only evaluated once. How can
> I overcome this, so that I get a vector of values that correspond to
> independent throws of 10 dice each time?
>
> Thanks for your advice and suggestions.
>
> -Kevin
>
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