[R] (no subject) (was: Permutations)

[Robin Hankin]

Jordi

try this


R> x <- c(1,2,3,  10,11,12,  41,42,43,  81,82,83)
R> dim(x) <- c(3,4)
R> x
      [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,]    1   10   41   81
[2,]    2   11   42   82
[3,]    3   12   43   83
R>  jj <- t(apply(x,1,sample))
R> jj
      [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,]    1   41   10   81
[2,]    2   11   82   42
[3,]   12    3   43   83
R> as.vector(jj)
R>
    [1]  1 2 12 41 11 3 10 82 43 81 42 83




and I think that does what you want...

We take the vector, rearrange it into a matrix with three rows, then 
sample *within* the rows,
then rearrange into a vector again.

There will be one forbidden permutation, namely the identity (which 
may or may not be
desirable).

This method doesn't allow "intra block" permutations.

best

rksh



>  Dear R users,
>  First of all, thanks for the incredibly fast answers and help of 
>Rolf, Marc and Robert.
>  Yes, I noticed that it was a lot of permutacions, but my intention 
>was to make this process automatic and take only 5.000 - 10.000 
>permutations. Therefore, I wanted only to take that "interesting 
>permutations" with "some information" [inter-block permutations].
>  The reason why I'm interested in these permutations is because I'm 
>using some packages of Bioconductor to analyse my data from some 
>microarrays and I thought that perhaps could be interesting to see 
>what happens when I permute my data and I compare it against the not 
>permuted data.
>  Thanks again for your time and suggestions.
>
>Jordi Altirriba
>Ph. D. Student
>
>Hospital Clinic-Barcelona-Spain
>
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