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 <solafa...@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) ) > Regards > [[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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
