hello everyone. please bear with me if this is very easy... I have a data set with many trials, and frames within each trial. I would like to pull out one random frame from each trial. here is an example. i have 4 unique trials (file), and various frames within each (time_pred). I would like to randomly sample 4 rows, but 1 from each trial (file).
this sample data is called "h" file time_pred distance_1 distance_2 distance_3 1 12.03.08_ins_odo_01 210 19.003 18.023 14.666 2 12.03.08_ins_odo_01 240 23.905 20.087 17.266 3 12.03.08_ins_odo_01 270 15.694 9.285 4.135 4 12.03.08_ins_odo_02 0 22.142 16.061 14.776 5 12.03.08_ins_odo_02 30 2.968 12.533 19.696 6 12.03.08_ins_odo_02 60 6.175 17.701 20.198 7 12.03.08_ins_odo_02 90 13.668 12.950 13.506 8 12.03.08_ins_odo_02 120 7.098 17.817 22.878 9 12.03.08_ins_odo_02 270 17.252 18.235 18.661 10 12.03.08_ins_odo_02 300 7.967 15.944 8.130 11 12.03.08_ins_odo_03 90 18.724 17.931 21.148 12 12.03.08_ins_odo_03 120 21.220 26.370 23.962 13 12.03.08_ins_odo_03 150 21.225 24.376 20.194 14 12.03.08_ins_odo_03 180 22.298 24.119 24.606 15 12.03.08_ins_odo_03 210 8.413 14.464 15.219 16 12.03.08_ins_odo_03 240 18.117 19.111 19.870 17 12.03.08_ins_odo_07 60 24.063 25.779 24.800 18 12.03.08_ins_odo_07 90 19.790 23.276 18.678 19 12.03.08_ins_odo_07 120 15.617 23.707 19.545 20 12.03.08_ins_odo_07 150 24.818 22.373 24.515 21 12.03.08_ins_odo_07 180 16.301 19.976 25.309 22 12.03.08_ins_odo_07 210 23.843 24.772 26.025 23 12.03.08_ins_odo_07 240 9.029 15.125 20.139 24 12.03.08_ins_odo_07 270 6.533 22.833 23.618 here is my code so far... > random <-for(i in unique(file)){h[sample(1:24,1),]} > random but this only gives me one sample... and if I try to exclude naming it as random, then nothing comes up. i'm confused and very new to R. please help! many many thanks! kristiina -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/sampling-one-random-frame-from-each-unique-trial-tp2270396p2270396.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.