[R] shuffling a vector

[Peter J. Acklam]

rxg218 at psu.edu wrote:

> 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.

What's your definition of "elegant"?  :-)

Isn't this elegant enough?

   x[order(runif(length(x)))]

Peter

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