R help - Jun 2003 - sample function

Dear all,
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?
 
Thanks a lot
  



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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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