[R] Number of ways to select population members

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

try something like this:

combn(LETTERS[1:3], 2, paste, collapse = "")


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Megh Dal" <megh700004 at yahoo.com>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:30 PM
Subject: [R] Number of ways to select population members


> Hi all,
>
>  Suppose I have a population of 3 alphabets : A, B, C. From this 
> population, number of ways that any 2 can be chosen is 3 i.e. AB, 
> AC, and BC.
>
>  Is there any R function to generalize this process, for any number 
> of alphabets/numbers and for any sub-sample size?
>
>  Thanks and regards,
>
>
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