Message-ID: <AANLkTilJm651mXnqOUFWhipqV11QOldSyjCyUD6IHric@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2010-06-21T03:42:31Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: proposed change to 'sample'
In-Reply-To: <4C1E8408.1010609@gmail.com>
> I would be more inclined to make sampling from a vector the normal case,
> and default x to say 1:max(n, size), forcing users to say sample(n=5) if
> sampling from x=1:5 is desired. This could be a manageable change; the
> deprecation sequence is a bit painful to think through, though.
Don't we already have sample.int for that case?
Hadley
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