On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Federico Andreis <federico.andr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess you could just use as an argument to sample > > data[,-c(1,2)] > > where 1 and 2 are id and pID50 column number
or if you do not know them and do not want to find out: sample(data[ , - match(c("id", "x3"), names(data))], 3, replace=FALSE) > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Addi Wei <addi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> id pID50 apol a_acc a_acid a_aro a_base a_count >> 1 mol.11 3.63 -0.882267 -0.527967 -0.298197 -1.032380 0 -1.063410 >> 2 mol.14 3.38 -1.007330 -0.527967 -0.298197 -1.032380 0 -1.063410 >> 3 mol.19 3.18 1.153560 1.407910 -0.298197 1.254100 0 1.160080 >> 4 mol.20 3.14 0.183448 -0.527967 -0.298197 0.873019 0 0.290021 >> 5 mol.29 2.77 -0.273901 -0.527967 -0.298197 0.110860 0 -0.193347 >> 6 mol.30 2.74 -0.230593 -0.527967 -0.298197 0.110860 0 0.000000 >> 7 mol.40 2.16 -1.117550 -0.527967 -0.298197 -1.032380 0 -1.256760 >> 8 mol.45 1.90 -0.383560 -0.527967 -0.298197 0.110860 0 -0.290021 >> 9 mol.48 1.73 -0.383560 -0.527967 -0.298197 0.110860 0 -0.290021 >> >> >> What if I want to exclude 2 columns? >> For example: sample(data, 3, replace=FALSE) ##from my sample, i want >> to exclude both id and pID50 >> >> Thanks much. >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Want-to-exclude-a-column-when-using-sample-function-tp2287988p2289092.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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.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.