How can I do this without the first replicate using recycling or matrix multiplication?
replicate(5, c(-74.04456199608506, 40.68923184725649)) + replicate(5, rnorm(2))
>Solution :
You could just use +, therefore using recycling:
replicate(5, rnorm(2)) + c(-74.04456199608506, 40.68923184725649)
output
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] -74.30676 -75.55923 -74.57547 -73.35665 -75.33159
[2,] 39.11709 39.08770 39.22748 42.78934 41.47697