sample
Yes and no. Same effect, but you won't get the same random numbers because -- I believe -- a different algorithm is used. grep the source for sample and sample2 if you're interested. Cheers, Michael
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:02 PM, solafah bh <solafahbh at yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello
If I have x=c(3,2,6,1) and n=length(x), are the following codes equivalent??
sample(x,1,replace=TRUE) and sample(x,1,replace=TRUE,prob=rep(1/n , n) )
Regards
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