On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:34:26AM -0800, wangwallace wrote:
>
> this is a simple question, but I wasn't able to figure it out myself.
>
> here is the data frame:
>
> M P Q
> 1 2 3
> 4 5 6
> 7 8 9
>
> M, P, Q each represent a variable
>
> I want to draw 2 random sample from each row separately to create a new data
> frame. how can I do it?
I am not sure, what you exactly mean. Can you provide an example of
the expected output?
If you consider each row as a sample of size 3 and want to use the
function sample() or sample(, replace=TRUE) to create a new sample
of the same size as a row of a new table, then in addition to the
already posted solutions you can use
X <- matrix(1:9, ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE)
j <- rep(seq(nrow(X)), each=2)
Y <- matrix(, ncol=ncol(X), nrow=length(j))
for (i in seq(nrow(Y))) {
Y[i, ] <- sample(X[j[i], ]) # or add replace=TRUE
}
colnames(Y) <- c("M", "P", "Q")
data.frame(Y)
M P Q
1 2 3 1
2 1 3 2
3 5 4 6
4 6 4 5
5 7 9 8
6 8 9 7
PS.
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