Thanks Jeff for pointing me the right direction. "Consecutive" was the right word. This will do it
d.samp <- sample(d[1:(length(d)-10)], 1) seq(d.samp, d.samp+10, by="days") Regards, Lauri 2008/8/20, Lauri Nikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks for quick reply. I meant that the sequence should be like this: > > "2007-06-16" "2007-06-17" "2007-06-18" "2007-06-19" "2007-06-20" > "2007-06-21" "2007-06-22" "2007-06-23" > "2007-06-24" "2007-06-25" > > so that the the days are adjacent... > > -Lauri > > 2008/8/20, Moshe Olshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > How about > > > > d[sample(length(d),10)] > > > > > > --- On Wed, 20/8/08, Lauri Nikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: Lauri Nikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: [R] Random sequence of days? > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Received: Wednesday, 20 August, 2008, 4:04 PM > > > Dear list, > > > > > > I tried to find a solution for this problem from the > > > archives but > > > couldn't find any. I would like sample sequence of ten > > > days from > > > vector d > > > > > > d <- seq(as.Date("2007-02-12"), > > > as.Date("2008-08-18"), by="days") > > > > > > so that the days follow each other (sample(d, 10) is not > > > the > > > appropriate solution). Any ideas? > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Lauri > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > 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. > > > ______________________________________________ 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.