Correct,
I even once got a response from a major software manufacturer support group
tha t abug I had found was an undocumented feature. :)

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Tom Gottfried <tom.gottfried@tum.de> wrote:

> Edzer,
>
> Am 09.02.2012 17:58, schrieb Edzer Pebesma:
>
>>
>>
>> On 02/09/2012 05:02 PM, Etienne B. Racine wrote:
>>
>>> It seems that sampleRandom isn't so random.
>>>
>>> # try this :
>>> library(raster)
>>> r<- raster(matrix(1:25, 5, 5))
>>> sampleRandom(r, 25)
>>> ## 1 6 11 16 21 2 7 12 17 22 3 8 13 18 23 4 9 14 19 24 5 10 15
>>> sampleRandom(r, 25)
>>> ## 1 6 11 16 21 2 7 12 17 22 3 8 13 18 23 4 9 14 19 24 5 10 15
>>>
>>> I haven't seen any documentation about this behavior.
>>>
>>>
>> Isn't the more important question whether you saw documentation that is
>> in conflict with this behaviour?
>>
>
> taking that to the extremes: undocumented software always works perfectly.
>
> (By the way I've heard that's the way ESRI did it with their
> "Geostatistical Analyst")
>
> Sorry for missing the topic of the thread.
> Tom
>
>
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