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RE: [S] Problems in generating Random numbers with sample()

To: "'Prof Brian Ripley'" <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: [S] Problems in generating Random numbers with sample()
From: "Smith, Stephen" <SmithSJ@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 11:22:58 -0300
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Right you are.  It is 4.0 release 3. I will report this to Mathsoft.

Stephen

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> > From: "Smith, Stephen" <SmithSJ@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
> > Subject: [S] Problems in generating Random numbers with sample()
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> > Over the weekend (it was raining) I attempted to do some "intuition"
> > checking
> > simulations and discovered some very strange behaviour in in S-PLUS
> 4.3.
> > 
> 
> What is 4.3?  I know of 4.0 release 3 and 4.5.
> 
> This sounds related to patrik ohagen's post earlier. I suspect a bug
> in whatever version it is that you are using, so suggest you report
> this to MathSoft's support.
> 
> 
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