Something like this? library(plyr) ddply(df, .(group), function(x){ x[sample(nrow(x), 1), ] })
Best regards, Thierry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 thierry.onkel...@inbo.be www.inbo.be To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > Namens Johannes Radinger > Verzonden: donderdag 17 november 2011 12:37 > Aan: r-help@r-project.org > Onderwerp: [R] How to resample one per group > > Hello, > > I have got a dataframe which looks like: > > y <- c(1,5,6,2,5,10) # response > x <- c(2,12,8,1,16,17) # predictor > group <- factor(c(1,2,2,3,4,4)) # group > df <- data.frame(y,x,group) > > Now I'd like to resample that dataset. > I want to get dataset (row) > per group. So per total sample I get 4 rows into a new data frame. How can I > do > that? > Is there any simple approach using an existing package. > > I looked at function strata() from package sampling. > I don't if that is the function for that or if there is a simpler approach > with > sample(). > > What I unsuccessfully tried so far: > > library(sampling) > strata(data=df,group,size=(rep(1,nlevels(group)))) > > Maybe you can help me to do this resampling... > > Thank you, > Johannes > -- > > ______________________________________________ > 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.