[R] simulated data using empirical distribution

[Dieter Menne]

Tom Sgouros <tomfool <at> as220.org> writes:

> What I have is twelve bins of data, and the population
> in each bin.  The top bin is open-ended, and the whole distribution is
> more or less poisson-ish.
> 
> I can think of a couple of ways to fake this ok, but is there a real R
> way to do it?
> 


hist(rpois(100,10)) # to plot
table(rpois(100,10)) # to get the histogram

I only have problem with your "twelve bins of data". If you really mean the
"ish", you could truncate the above to the 12 that you love.

Dieter