[Rd] proposed change to 'sample'

[Hadley Wickham]

> 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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