On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>> I would be more inclined to make sampling from a vector the normal case,
>>> and default x to say 1:max(n, size), forcing users to say sample(n=5) if
>>> sampling from x=1:5 is desired. This could be a manageable ch
Hadley Wickham wrote:
>> I would be more inclined to make sampling from a vector the normal case,
>> and default x to say 1:max(n, size), forcing users to say sample(n=5) if
>> sampling from x=1:5 is desired. This could be a manageable change; the
>> deprecation sequence is a bit painful to think t
> -Original Message-
> From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:pda...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 2:12 PM
> To: William Dunlap
> Cc: Patrick Burns; r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] proposed change to 'sample'
>
> William Dunlap wrote:
> &g
> I would be more inclined to make sampling from a vector the normal case,
> and default x to say 1:max(n, size), forcing users to say sample(n=5) if
> sampling from x=1:5 is desired. This could be a manageable change; the
> deprecation sequence is a bit painful to think through, though.
Don't we
William Dunlap wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org
>> [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Burns
>>
>> I propose adding an argument that allows
>> the user (programmer) to avoid that
>> ambiguity:
>>
>> function (x, size, replace
> -Original Message-
> From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org
> [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Burns
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 3:08 AM
> To: r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: [Rd] proposed change to 'sample'
>
> There is a w
There is a weakness in the 'sample'
function that is highlighted in the
help file. The 'x' argument can be
either the vector from which to sample,
or the maximum value of the sequence
from which to sample.
This can be ambiguous if the length of
'x' is one.
I propose adding an argument that allo
