[R] the sample() function

[Uwe Ligges]

You can access the sources yourself.
How to find the right file is described in
Ligges, U. (2006): R Help Desk: Accessing the Sources. R News 6 (4), 
43-45. http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-4.pdf

Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges




On 15.01.2010 10:54, Federico Bonofiglio wrote:
> hello R-Wizards!!!!! again i'm invoking your presence!!
>
> since all the fuss about the paradoxes on a computer algorithm generating
> "caos" or un-determinancy, i recently grew quite curious about the mechanism
> underlying the procedure of NUMBER RADOMIZATION.
>
> could anyone of you, masters, attach me the algorithm (or source code? is it
> right?) behind the *sample()* function, so i can inspect in detail the
> mechanism of this so gossiped "radomization"?
>
> thank you, sincerely
>
> federico bonofiglio,
> student of statistics at
> milano bicocca university,
> italia
>
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