R help - May 2006 - random generation of a factor

Hi everybody

Does anybody know a function that generates a factor of length N with K 
levels given the proportions c(p1, p2,... ,pk)? It would not be too hard 
to write it for myself, but if there's a preexisting one..
I searched the documentation and the help archive, but could not find 
anything helpful.

 > version
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platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386          
os       mingw32       
system   i386, mingw32 
status                 
major    2             
minor    2.0           
year     2005          
month    10            
day      06            
svn rev  35749         
language R

Thanks a lot.
Christian

Hi,

> 
> Does anybody know a function that generates a factor of 
> length N with K 
> levels given the proportions c(p1, p2,... ,pk)? It would not 
## does this code piece help you?

mydata <- c("yesterday", "today", "tomorrow")
myproportions <- c(0.3, 0.5, 0.2)

n <- 20
sample(x=mydata, size=n, replace=TRUE, prob=myproportions)

cat("Best,\nRoland\n")

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