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rndfp

Generate Randomized Fingerprints

Description

A utility function that can be used to generate binary fingerprints of a specified length with a specifed number of bit positions (selected randomly) set to 1. Currently bit positions are selected uniformly

Usage

random.fingerprint(nbit,on)

Arguments

`nbit`	The length of the fingerprint, that is, the total number of bits. Must be a positive integer.
`on`	How many positions should be set to 1

Value

An object of class fingerprint

Author(s)

Rajarshi Guha rguha@indiana.edu

Examples

# make a fingerprint vector
fp <- random.fingerprint(32, 16)
as.character(fp)

fingerprint

Functions to Operate on Binary Fingerprint Data

v3.5.7

GPL

Authors

Rajarshi Guha <rajarshi.guha@gmail.com>

Initial release

2018-01-06