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sampleFrom

Sample from a set of distributions

Function samples from a set of normal distributions with parameters given in xbar and xvar.

sampleFrom(xbar=0, xvar=1, n=1, randn=NULL, type="norm")

`xbar`	a named vector of means.
`xvar`	a named vector of variances.
`n`	a vector containing the sample sizes of each species.
`randn`	a range of sample sizes are to be random.
`type`	`"norm"` is the only distribution implemented so far.

A vector, with labels.

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.

Phylogenetic Tools for Comparative Biology (and Other Things)

v0.7-70

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Liam J. Revell

Initial release

2020-9-19