R help - Sep 2006 - random number generation from a-/symmetric distribution

Hi list,

are there any functions or ideas to compute random numbers with a specific
population mean and standard deviation from symmetric (but not normal) and
asymmetric distributions? My first idea was to use e.g. rf() (and other
R-functions for random number generation)  and then scale the random numbers
(for example: mean 300 and standard deviation 40), but I don't know if
I'm wrong...

Thanks, Sven

Garbade, Sven a ?crit :
> Hi list,
> are there any functions or ideas to compute random numbers with a specific
population mean and standard deviation from symmetric (but not normal) and
asymmetric distributions? My first idea was to use e.g. rf() (and other
R-functions for random number generation)  and then scale the random numbers
(for example: mean 300 and standard deviation 40), but I don't know if
I'm wrong...
> Thanks, Sven
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/boot.html
and all methods/packages related to bootstraping.
hih