If I understand what is wanted correctly, this can be a one-liner! -- think whole objects:
splitup <- function(x,n.groups) #split x into n.groups mutually exclusive sets { lx <- length(x) if(n.groups >= lx) stop("Number of groups greater than vector length") x <- x[sample(lx,lx)] split(x,seq_len(n.groups)) } ## testit > splitup(1:71,9) $`1` [1] 22 26 38 50 65 60 9 27 $`2` [1] 24 2 69 28 71 31 41 13 $`3` [1] 16 47 63 45 23 1 8 32 $`4` [1] 34 39 64 35 7 19 4 55 $`5` [1] 54 10 37 68 6 17 70 18 $`6` [1] 61 11 5 46 33 43 14 56 $`7` [1] 42 44 12 62 66 48 57 58 $`8` [1] 21 40 30 29 20 49 52 67 $`9` [1] 59 15 25 51 3 36 53 Cheers, Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Statistics -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Winsemius Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:55 AM To: Marcio Resende Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Sampling procedure On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Marcio Resende wrote: > > I would like to divide a vector in 9 groups in a way that each > number is > present in only one group. > In a vector of 783 I would like to divide in 9 different groups of 87 > > Example <- matrix(c(1:783),ncol = 1) > Example <- matrix(c(1:783),ncol = 1) > Grp1 <- sample(Example, 87, replace=FALSE) > Grp2 <- sample(Example[-Grp1], 87, replace=FALSE) > Grp3 <- sample(Example[-c(Grp1, Grp2)], 87, replace=FALSE) # lather, rinse , repeat > s1 <- as.matrix(sample(Example,87, re = FALSE)) > Example <- Example[-s1] > s2 <- as.matrix(sample(Example,87, re = FALSE)) > #however I don“t know how to remove the second group from the > "Example" to > continue sampling. > #Don't mess up the original > There is probably an easy and faster way to do this. > Could anybody help me? > Thanks -- David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT ______________________________________________ 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.