Re: [R] random selection from dataset and creating and graphing multiple means

2009-09-20 Thread Schalk Heunis
Mike I split the answer into three parts: A. Random sampling To random select 500 from 5000, you can use:> data5000 = rnorm(5000,200,10) # make some data > s = sample(data5000,500) > head(s) [1] 201.7548 167.5157 106.1064 194.6629 165.9758 187.1152 B. Repeated Random Sampling Its not clear with

[R] random selection from dataset and creating and graphing multiple means

2009-09-19 Thread MikeH78
I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem. I need to randomly select, say 500 subjects from the 5000 cases I have and then need to run a test to create 500 sample means and graph the means in a histogram. Does anyone know how to do this. I'm not that familiar with R so please be pa