[R] sample() help

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"HEUMANN,JOHN (A-Loveland,ex1)" <john_heumann at agilent.com> writes:

> The documentation for sample() describes the optional "prob"
> argument as "A vector of probabilities of obtaining the 
> elements of the vector being sampled". 
> 
> Both run time behavior and source code (routine FixupProb) 
> suggest that "prob" can be a vector of non-negative, 
> relative weights (i.e. not necessarily normalized). 
> Should the help be updated to reflect this?

Can't hurt. Done.

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