Hi, The following is what I get:
> x =1:12 > x [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 > sample(x) [1] 9 6 12 5 3 4 1 11 8 7 10 2 > sample(x, size = 2) [1] 9 4 What's the output of sessionInfo() and ls() ? Perhaps you have a different "sample" function in your workspace? HTH, Jorge.- On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:52 PM, SUPAKORN LAOHAPITAKVORN <> wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone help me with the sample () in R? > > If I sample from x, I should get one integer. Can anyone tell me what's > wrong here? > > x =1:12 > > sample(x) > [1] 6.5 > > And, I cannot get the sample with size = 2 > > sample(x, size = 2) > Error in sample(x, size = 2) : unused argument(s) (size = 2) > > sample(x, 2) > [1] 54.16667 > > Thank you in advance > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.