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________________________________ From: Peter Alspach-2 [via R] [mailto:ml-node+3618799-1094957657-247...@n4.nabble.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:27 PM To: Bendik, Nathan Subject: Re: Subsetting data systematically Tena koe Nate You can use the fact that R recycles. If yourData is a dataframe, then (as examples): yourData[c(TRUE,FALSE),] will give you every second row, starting with the first. Similarly, yourData[c(FALSE,TRUE,FALSE),] will give every third row, starting with the second; and yourData[c(TRUE, rep(FALSE,19)),] will give every twentieth row, starting with the first. There's also seq(). HTH .... Peter Alspach. > -----Original Message----- > From: [hidden email] [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of gibberish > Sent: Thursday, 23 June 2011 11:05 a.m. > To: [hidden email] > Subject: [R] Subsetting data systematically > > I would like to subset data from a larger dataset and generate a > smaller > dataset. However, I don't want to use sample() because it does it > randomly. > I would like to take non-random subsamples, for example, every 2nd > number, > or every 3rd number. Is there a procedure that does this? > > Thanks, Nate > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Subsetting- > data-systematically-tp3618516p3618516.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > [hidden email] 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. The contents of this e-mail are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disseminate, distribute or reproduce all or any part of this e-mail or attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete all material pertaining to this e-mail. Any opinion or views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited. ______________________________________________ [hidden email] 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. ________________________________ If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Subsetting-data-systematically-tp3618516p3 618799.html To unsubscribe from Subsetting data systematically, click here <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscrib e_by_code&node=3618516&code=bmF0aGFuLmJlbmRpa0BjaS5hdXN0aW4udHgudXN8MzYx ODUxNnwyMDc3MzAzODgz> . -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Subsetting-data-systematically-tp3618516p3623467.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. [[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.