Equivalent to R's sample(x,y,prob=) in Julia

Question

Julia-users: is there an equivalent to R's sample(x,y,prob=) to sample from a given set of values with weighted probabilities? The rand() function is equivalent to sample(x,y), but as far as I'm aware there's no option to add probability weights... Any help appreciated!

Answer 1

OK - done a bit more digging and wsample from the Distributions package seems to be the answer:

using Distributions
wsample(population, weights, n)

Next time I'll look harder before posting!