[R] Indexing Question

[Roger D. Peng]

I think what you want is

lapply(b, function(x) sample(na.omit(x), 2, replace = TRUE))

-roger

Nathan Cooper wrote:

> I have an indexing question. I have a data set that looks like this:
>
>> b
>
> [[1]]
> [1] 22 23 24 25 26
>
> [[2]]
> [1] 6 7 8 9 NA
>
> etc. from [[1]] to [[1000]]
>
> Then I need to use the sample function to take two samples from b[[1]] 
> to b[[1000]] each separately. I thought something like 
> "sample(na.omit(b[[1:1000]]),2,replace=TRUE)" would work but it 
> doesn't. Is there a way to index this properly?? Thanks,
>
> Nathan
>
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