wakefield (version 0.3.3)

military: Generate Random Vector of Military Branches

Description

Generate a random vector of military branches.

Usage

military(n, x = c("Army", "Air Force", "Navy", "Marine Corps", "Coast Guard"),
  prob = c(0.3785, 0.2334, 0.2218, 0.1366, 0.0296), name = "Military")

Arguments

n

The number elements to generate. This can be globally set within the environment of r_data_frame or r_list.

x

A vector of elements to chose from.

prob

A vector of probabilities to chose from.

name

The name to assign to the output vector's varname attribute. This is used to auto assign names to the column/vector name when used inside of r_data_frame or r_list.

Value

Returns a random factor vector of military branch elements.

Details

The military branches and probabilities used match approximate U.S. military make-up:

Branch	N	Percent
Army	541,291	37.9%
Air Force	333,772	23.3%
Navy	317,237	22.2%
Marine Corps	195,338	13.7%
Coast Guard	42,357	3.0%

See Also

Other variable functions: age, animal, answer, area, car, children, coin, color, date_stamp, death, dice, dna, dob, dummy, education, employment, eye, grade_level, grade, group, hair, height, income, internet_browser, iq, language, level, likert, lorem_ipsum, marital, month, name, normal, political, race, religion, sat, sentence, sex_inclusive, sex, smokes, speed, state, string, upper, valid, year, zip_code

Examples

# NOT RUN {
military(10)
barplot(table(military(10000)))
pie(table(military(10000)))
# }

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