On 16-Aug-10 07:35:58, Linda Eaton wrote: > I am trying to get documentation about the random number generator > used in "sample". The help for sample does not mention it. Can > anyone point me in the right direction. > > Thanks
The place the "read all about it" is ?RNG Agreed that ?sample gives no hint. ?rnorm does mention it, runif leads to it indirectly (via ?rnorm), rpois gives no hint, nor ?rbinom, and so on. There may be a case for a uniform approach to documentation of RNG methods in the various functions which generate random outcomes. Simply "See also ?RNG" in every case might be enough! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 16-Aug-10 Time: 09:31:20 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
