Re: [R] Randomly selecting n (unique) elements out of vector of length m...

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Subject: Re: [R] Randomly selecting n (unique) elements out of vector of length m...
From: Aleksey Naumov (naumov@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Fri 17 Nov 2000 - 13:39:35 EST 

Message-ID: <3A14A877.59B04678@acsu.buffalo.edu>

Thank you all very much! The answer was simple, but it just wasn't clear where to
look for it
(I checked in "Keywords by Topic", "An Introduction to R", and "Reference Manual")

:-)

Aleksey

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Try the function sample(). In your case...
  subset <- sample(V,size=10,replace=FALSE)

Cheers, Pierre

Aleksey Naumov wrote:

> Dear R users,
>
> I wonder if there is a simple way to select a random and non-overlapping
> subset of a vector?
> Say, I need to randomly select 10 out of 100 numbers in a vector V. By
> "non-overlapping" I
> mean that a number in any position in V (V[1]...V[100]) should be
> selected at most once
> (i.e. selection without recycling).
>
> I could simplu use a uniform distribution to generate selection indices:
>
> > floor( runif(10, min=1, max=101) )
> [1] 17 34 16 91 43 2 22 75 59 38
>
> but there is no guarantee that elements will be unique, so I'll have to
> check and add some if
> needed (and probably do it a few times)...
>
> Is there a simper way?
>
> Thanks,
> Aleksey
>
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