Re: [Rd] Bug in base function sample ( ) (PR#13727)

2009-05-29 Thread Stavros Macrakis
> > ...I discovered that when R attempts to sample from an object with only one > number it does not > reproduce/report the number but instead chooses a random number between 1 > and that number. > This is the documented behavior. In my opinion, it is a design error, but changing it would no doub

Re: [Rd] Bug in base function sample ( ) (PR#13727)

2009-05-29 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 09:30 +0200, chajew...@fordham.edu wrote: > Full_Name: Michael Chajewski > Version: 2.9.0 > OS: Windows XP > Submission from: (NULL) (150.108.71.185) > > > I was programming a routine which kept reducing the array from which a random > sample was taken, resulting in a single

[Rd] Bug in base function sample ( ) (PR#13727)

2009-05-29 Thread chajewski
Full_Name: Michael Chajewski Version: 2.9.0 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (150.108.71.185) I was programming a routine which kept reducing the array from which a random sample was taken, resulting in a single number. I discovered that when R attempts to sample from an object with only on