This works great, thank you for your help ! Dr. Juliane Struve Environmental Scientist 10, Lynwood Crescent Sunningdale SL5 0BL 01344 620811
--- On Mon, 21/7/08, jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] sampling from a list of values while excluding one > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Monday, 21 July, 2008, 10:43 AM > Here is one way of doing it by removing the element from the > vector > > > # exclude the 3rd element of the vector > > sample((1:10)[-3], 10, TRUE) > [1] 4 5 7 10 2 10 10 7 7 1 > > > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Juliane Struve > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > > > I am trying to sample from a list of integers 1:10, > but need to exclude one of them. The one to be excluded is > a variable called "number" and can take values > 1:10. The line below does not work, but shows what I am > trying to do. Would somebody be able to help me with the > syntax ? > > > > anglenumber=sample(1:10, exclude = > "number",size=1,replace=TRUE) > > > > Thank you very much for a hint. > > > > Regards, > > > > Juliane > > > > > > Dr. Juliane Struve > > Environmental Scientist > > 10, Lynwood Crescent > > Sunningdale SL5 0BL > > 01344 620811 > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > Not happy with your email address?. > > Get the one you really want - millions of new email > addresses available now at Yahoo! > http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem you are trying to solve? __________________________________________________________ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html ______________________________________________ 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.
