[R] shuffling a vector
Rajarshi Guha
rajarshi at presidency.com
Mon Nov 10 17:46:35 CET 2003
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:28, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
> Hi,
> I'me trying to write a function that will shuffle a vector. At the
> moment I'm baically making a vector of randomized indices and then
> making a new vector from the original one using these random indices.
>
> However, is there an alternative (more elegant) method to do this? I
> tried help.search('shuffle') but it does'nt return anything relevant.
Seems I sent of the mail prematurely :-/
sample() allows me to get the randomzied indices
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