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This is about the resampling questions. I want to generate a species list fro a random sample of n individuals based on the species probabilities.

For example: there are 3 species c("sp.1", "sp.2", "sp.3"),and their abundance is c(1,2,3). I want to how the species list if i randomly pick up 2 individuals. Repeat many times.

Many thanks!

cong
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Just add the probabilities into sample using prob

sample(c("sp.1", "sp.2", "sp.3"), 2, prob=c(1,2,3))

to repeat, you could wrap in replicate, e.g. 100 times:

replicate(100, sample(c("sp.1", "sp.2", "sp.3"), 2, prob=c(1,2,3)))
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