R help - Jul 2004 - Laplacian Distribution

All,
 
Could anybody please tell me how to generate Laplacian distributed random
numbers? Thanks.
 
Minghua

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> Could anybody please tell me how to generate Laplacian distributed
> random numbers? Thanks.
	Yes.  Generate random uniforms and then apply the
	inverse cumulative distribution function of the
	Laplace distribution to these.

	It's about 2 lines of code.  Figure it out.

				cheers,

					Rolf Turner
					rolf at math.unb.ca

P. S.  Is this a homework problem?

How about something like:

n <- 100
x <- sign(runif(n) - 0.5) * rexp(n)

??

Andy
> From: Yao, Minghua
> 
> All,
>  
> Could anybody please tell me how to generate Laplacian 
> distributed random numbers? Thanks.
>  
> Minghua