?? Something like: lapply(mydata, function(x){ nr <- nrow(x) x[sample(seq_len(nr),nr,rep=TRUE),] })
maybe. The idea is to use the sampled rows as your row index. -- Bert On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Bcampbell99 <briand.campb...@ec.gc.ca> wrote: > Hi: > > I'm sure this seems like a rudimentary question, but I am not well versed > with R syntax for lists. I have a ragged array from which I've removed > records (entire rows) with missing data. The functions I used to remove the > missing cases resulted in the generation of an R list class object, that > looks something like this; > > mydata > [[1]] > [,1] [,2] [,3] > [1,] 1 2 3 > [2,] 4 5 6 > [3,] 7 8 9 > > [[2]] > [,1] [,2] [,3] > [1,] 10 11 12 > [2,] 13 14 15 > > [[3]] > [,1] [,2] [,3] > [1,] 16 17 18 > [2,] 19 20 21 > [3,] 22 23 24 > [4,] 25 26 27 > [5,] 28 29 30 > > Part1 > What I would like to do is draw an equal number of random row samples > from[[1]],[[2]] and [[3]] (to preserve the structure of [,1][,2],[,3]. > > Part2 > Then I would like to cocerce the list object into something like an array. > > Help scripting out part 1 or 2 would be much appreciated. > > Brian Campbell > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/sampling-rows-from-a-list-tp4526831p4526831.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. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ 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.