From: Prof Brian D Ripley (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 27 Jun 2003 - 19:18:02 EST
Message-id: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0306271016341.4000-100000@petrel>
R is not S-PLUS, and you need Modern Applied Statistics in S (4th ed) for a
description including R.
sample in R used a PRNG: see ?RNG in R for the details of PRNGs in R.
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Ramzi Feghali wrote:
> i have a question about the "sample" function used in R, does it work as
> a pseudo-dandom number generator programmed with C, like it is described
> in Modern Applied Statics with S-Plus 3d edition chapter 5 section 2?
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