Marc, Your method works fine when the data is perfectly uniform, but try it with "Vec <- rnorm(30)" and you will see that there are more observations in the middle groups and fewer in the tail groups. Something like quantile needs to be used to find the unequally spaced breaks that will give equal counts within groups.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Marc Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 17, 2013, at 4:43 PM, Witold E Wolski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I would like to "cut" a vector into groups of equal nr of elements. > > looking for a function on the lines of cut but where I can specify > > the size of the groups instead of the nr of groups. > > > > In addition to the other options, if the 'breaks' argument to cut() is a > single number, rather than a vector of cut points, it defines the number of > intervals to break the 'x' vector into, which of course you can derive from > length(x) / size. > > Thus: > > set.seed(1) > Vec <- sample(30) > > > Vec > [1] 8 11 17 25 6 23 27 16 14 2 5 4 13 7 18 30 29 24 20 9 10 21 > [23] 26 1 22 15 28 12 3 19 > > > # Split into 5 groups of 6 each > > > split(Vec, cut(Vec, 5)) > $`(0.971,6.78]` > [1] 6 2 5 4 1 3 > > $`(6.78,12.6]` > [1] 8 11 7 9 10 12 > > $`(12.6,18.4]` > [1] 17 16 14 13 18 15 > > $`(18.4,24.2]` > [1] 23 24 20 21 22 19 > > $`(24.2,30]` > [1] 25 27 30 29 26 28 > > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. [email protected] [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
