yes you are right .... it was my inattention it is friday and my head needs to start the week end sorry;-)
2012/6/8 David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > > On Jun 8, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Guido Leoni wrote: > > Dear list >> Is there a way to extract a random sample without duplicated row from a >> dataframe ?. >> a=c(1,2,3,1,1,1,2,1) >> b=c(1,2,3,1,2,1,2,1) >> c=c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1) >> d=c(1,2,3,1,1,1,2,1) >> prov<-data.frame(a,b,c,d) >> prov2<-prov[sample(1:nrow(**prov),5,replace=T),] >> prov2 >> a b c d >> 3 3 3 1 3 >> 6 1 1 1 1 >> 3.1 3 3 1 3 >> 5 1 2 1 1 >> 8 1 1 1 1 >> >> I tryed the above code but as you can see sample function includes also >> duplicates. >> thank you for any tip >> > > Why would you use replace=T if you didn't want duplicates??? > > -- > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > -- Guido Leoni National Research Institute on Food and Nutrition (I.N.R.A.N.) via Ardeatina 546 00178 Rome Italy tel + 39 06 51 49 41 (operator) + 39 06 51 49 4498 (direct) [[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.