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Function written to match MATLAB's rand function

Source: R/rand.R
rand.Rd

Generate random samples from a uniform distribution [0,1] and return in matrix form

Usage

rand(dim1, dim2 = NULL)

Arguments

dim1

The dimension of the matrix (if square), otherwise the number of rows.

dim2

The number of columns, if different from the number of rows.

Value

Matrix of random generated samples.

See also

Other MATLAB: cell(), diag_matlab(), feval(), fileparts(), isempty(), ones(), randn(), size(), tic(), toc(), zeros()

Examples


rand(2,3)
#>            [,1]      [,2]      [,3]
#> [1,] 0.78562035 0.3140058 0.8876423
#> [2,] 0.01472684 0.9888032 0.8638064

rand(5)
#>            [,1]      [,2]      [,3]       [,4]      [,5]
#> [1,] 0.69633302 0.6753241 0.6039208 0.57017268 0.9722578
#> [2,] 0.55576633 0.6834282 0.6109661 0.71155293 0.8258911
#> [3,] 0.50001558 0.9068502 0.4766922 0.06932691 0.5327581
#> [4,] 0.02953794 0.1530525 0.9027106 0.10538600 0.9491165
#> [5,] 0.17232315 0.6742126 0.6682546 0.28168070 0.9006530