You've misplaced the comma. mysample <- df[, sample(ncol(df), 50, replace=FALSE)]
ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Kliniekstraat 25 1070 Anderlecht Belgium + 32 2 525 02 51 + 32 54 43 61 85 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 catalin roibu Verzonden: maandag 26 augustus 2013 11:41 Aan: r-help@r-project.org Onderwerp: [R] arbitrary subset of dataframe Dear all! I want to arbitrary subset a data frame by variables. I try this code, but the subset work only for rows, but I want to subset by variables. # sample without replacement mysample <- df[sample(1:ncol(df), 50, replace=FALSE),] Please help me to solve this problem! Thank you! Best regards! CR -- --- Catalin-Constantin ROIBU Lecturer PhD, Forestry engineer Forestry Faculty of Suceava Str. Universitatii no. 13, Suceava, 720229, Romania office phone +4 0230 52 29 78, ext. 531 mobile phone +4 0745 53 18 01 +4 0766 71 76 58 FAX: +4 0230 52 16 64 silvic.usv.ro [[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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * D I S C L A I M E R * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen geven enkel de visie van de schrijver weer en binden het INBO onder geen enkel beding, zolang dit bericht niet bevestigd is door een geldig ondertekend document. The views expressed in this message and any annex are purely those of the writer and may not be regarded as stating an official position of INBO, as long as the message is not confirmed by a duly signed document. ______________________________________________ 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.
