Hey,
I am very new to R. I've been trying to simulate some data for a hypothetical project. I want to simulate the results of a questionnaire. The data should be in a normal distribution but since the results are supposed to be between 1 to 5 (bc that is the scale of the questionnaire) I would like to set an interval when generating the data. I've been using rnorm but that doesn't work with an interval.
Does anyone know how to do this? I am not even sure if that is statistically possible so I would love some input if I am totally wrong here.
Thank you so much.
Something like this?
sample(1:5, size = 100, replace = TRUE, prob = c(0.10, 0.20, 0.40, 0.20, 0.10))
set.seed(42)
myrnorms <- rnorm(100000)
hist(myrnorms)
my_cutnorms <- cut(myrnorms,breaks = 5L)
my_cutnorms_nicelabels <- factor(my_cutnorms,labels=paste0("Q",1:5))
plot(my_cutnorms_nicelabels)solution 3: 
# generate vector with normal distribution
v1 = rnorm(100)
# scale the vector from 0 to 5, and round to full numbers
v2 = round(scales::rescale(v1, to=c(0,5)),0)
# show as histogram
hist(v2, breaks=5)
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