[R] error in using sample( )

Peter Ehlers ehlers at ucalgary.ca
Sun Feb 21 19:45:58 CET 2010


On 2010-02-18 8:48, jxia at math.ucdavis.edu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using the command
>
>> sample(c(0,1,2),1,prob=c(0.2,0.3,0.5))
>
> and I have this error notification
>
> "Error in sample(c(0,1,2),1,prob=c(0.2,0.3,0.5)):
>   unused argument(s)(1,prob=c(0.2,0.3,0.5))
>
> I don't know what is going wrong. Please give me some suggestions.

Try this:

  rm(sample)
  sample(c(0,1,2),1,prob=c(0.2,0.3,0.5))

  -Peter Ehlers

>
> Thank you
>
>
> Best,
> Jing
>
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