mosaic (version 1.9.1)

rflip: Tossing Coins

Description

These functions simplify simulating coin tosses for those (students primarily) who are not yet familiar with the binomial distributions or just like this syntax and verbosity better.

Usage

rflip(
  n = 1,
  prob = 0.5,
  quiet = FALSE,
  verbose = !quiet,
  summarize = FALSE,
  summarise = summarize
)

# S3 method for cointoss print(x, ...)

nflip(n = 1, prob = 0.5, ...)

Value

for rflip, a cointoss object

for nflip, a numeric vector

Arguments

n

the number of coins to toss

prob

probability of heads on each toss

quiet

a logical. If TRUE, less verbose output is used.

verbose

a logical. If TRUE, more verbose output is used.

summarize

if TRUE, return a summary (as a data frame).

summarise

alternative spelling for summarize.

x

an object

...

additional arguments

Examples

Run this code
rflip(10)
rflip(10, prob = 1/6, quiet = TRUE)
rflip(10, prob = 1/6, summarize = TRUE)
do(5) * rflip(10)
as.numeric(rflip(10))
nflip(10)

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