R-beta: S compatibility

[E. S. Venkatraman]

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Ross Ihaka wrote:
> 
> 	2. sample() does not have the option, prob=
> 
> This is a good little exercise for someone :-).  Anyone want to write a
> C function which does this.  I.e. we want a function which takes a
> vector of probabilities and returns the sampled values.  We probably
> want with and without replacement.  Given such a function it would be
> about two minutes work to integrate it into R.
> 

Would a Fortran code be acceptable?

E. S. Venkatraman (venkat at biosta.mskcc.org)

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