[R] Design of a survey using the "survey" package

[Tobias Verbeke]

Tom La Bone wrote:

> I have looked through the new "Complex Surveys" book and the documentation
> for the "survey" package and it appears to me that there are no functions in
> "survey" that help one to design a sampling scheme. For example, in the book
> section 2.8 discusses the design of stratified samples, but there is no
> mention of any functions in the "survey" package that implement the
> discussed strategies. So, am I missing something obvious here or is the
> "survey" package meant only for analyzing survey data once you have it in
> hand?

Yes.

 > packageDescription("survey")
Package: survey
Title: analysis of complex survey samples
[...]

For drawing samples, see e.g. the sampling package:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sampling/index.html

HTH,
Tobias