Random Samples

Takes a sample without replacement from the population. See the Details section below for further information.

Usage

sampleWithoutReplacement(N, n, prob = NULL)

Arguments

N

positive integer value, the population size

n

positive integer value, the sample size

prob

(optional) N-length vector of positive numeric values, the probability weights for obtaining the N elements

Value

A vector of length n containing the index of the computed random set of observations.

Details

This function is a wrapper to the sample.int function.

Author

Alessandro Barberis

Examples

#Set seed for reproducibility
set.seed(seed = 5381L)

#Simple random sample without replacement
sampleWithoutReplacement(N = 10, n = 5)
#> [1] 1 9 7 2 4