Re: [R] sample with equal probabilities

2012-10-06 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Please don't double post. And see my response to you here: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2012-October/325470.html Michael On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:51 PM, solafah bh wrote: > Hello > If I have this vector x=c(5,1,2,9) and n=length(x) and I want to sample one > value from x , and each va

[R] sample with equal probabilities

2012-10-06 Thread solafah bh
Hello If I have this vector x=c(5,1,2,9) and n=length(x) and I want to sample one value from x , and each value of x has equal probability to appear (1/n). Are the following codes equivalent?? sample(x,1,replace=TRUE)  and   sample(x,1,replace=TRUE,prob=rep(1/n , n))   Regards [[alternativ