Consider an example: There are 3 stores (1,2,3), and 5 customers. Each store must have at least one customer. Thus a possible combination is 11213. On the other hand, a combination 22333 is not what I want
I have considered your solution earlier, but in this case, first three customers have to go to store 123 in sequence, and the randomness has been reduced. You are right, the sampling procedure is not totally random, but I want to be as random as possible. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Erik Iverson [mailto:er...@ccbr.umn.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 7:11 PM To: Chen,Shaofei Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] sample() question On 08/18/2010 06:58 PM, Chen,Shaofei wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I have a question regarding sample() in R. For example, I have a set: > > set<- c(2,3,5) > > and I want to draw 5 samples from this set, so replacement is true: > > m<- sample(set, 5, replace=TRUE) > > However here comes a problem, for example, I will have (2,3,3,2,5), but I > will also get (3,3,5,5,3) in some cases. This means element 2 has not been > sampled in this case. > > The way I want to do is to random sample with replacement, but all elements > have to be sampled. > > Any solutions? Well, if all elements have to be sampled once, then those 3 elements will not be random, since they must be present. So you're really only sampling 2 elements from the set, so just do that. c(1:3, sample(set, 2, replace = TRUE) although I really wonder what you're trying to do here? ______________________________________________ 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.
