[R] sampling without repetition

[Rajarshi Guha]

Hi,
  I'm trying to write a function that will divide a given range of
numbers into 3 sets using sample(), without repetition. Currently I'm
trying this approach:

r <- 1:10
s1 <- sample(r,size=3)

Next, I want to remove the selected elements from r and sample() from
the remainder.

r <- r[ -(r=s1) ]
s2 <- sample(r,size=3)

When I go to remove the elements contained in s2 from r I get an error:

r <- r[ -(r=s2) ]
Error: subscript out of bounds

I'm not sure why this is happening. I tried replacing the '=' with '=='
but I get another error 

Warning message:
longer object length
        is not a multiple of shorter object length in: r == s1

Essentially what I need is to get the indices into r of the elements of
s1 & s2. I have looked at which but I cant seem to work out how I can
get the indices into r of all the elements of, say, s1.

Does anybody have any suggestions? (Of course if there is a more elegant
way of doing this whole thing I would appreciate any pointers)

Thanks,

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