Tobias Verbeke writes:
I just noticed in your blog post you use Sharon Lohr's book on sampling design and analysis for your course.Some time ago I made an R package with the datasets and a vignette which reproduces part of the analyses with Thomas Lumley's survey package.
This could be useful.
There are other packages that performs sampling functions in R. For example: The survey package (Lumley), the sampling package (Tillé) and the TeachingSampling package (Gutiérrez).
http://predictive.wordpress.com/stats/
Best Regards,
AG