If you don't want to go with the simple method mentioned by David and Ted, or you just want some more theory, you can check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle and implement that.
-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of flokke > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 2:09 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] rearrange set of items randomly > > Dear all, > I hope that this question is not too weird, I will try to explain it as > good > as I can. > > I have to write a function for a school project and one limitation is > that I > may not use the in built function sample() > > At one point in the function I would like to resample/rearrange the > items of > my sample (so I would want to use sample, but I am not allowed to do > so), so > I have to come up with sth else that does the same as the in built > function > sample() > > The only thing that sample() does is rearranging the items of a sample, > so I > searched the internet for a function that does that to be able to use > it, > but I cannot find anything that could help me. > > Can maybe someone help me with this? > I would be very grateful, > > Cheers, > Maria > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/rearrange- > set-of-items-randomly-tp4013723p4013723.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. ______________________________________________ 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.
