[R] sample

R. Michael Weylandt michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 18:10:05 CEST 2012


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) )
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