[R] sampling from a list of values while excluding one

[Juliane Struve]

This works great, thank you for your help !

Dr. Juliane Struve
Environmental Scientist
10, Lynwood Crescent
Sunningdale SL5 0BL
01344 620811


--- On Mon, 21/7/08, jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] sampling from a list of values while excluding one
> To: juliane_struve at yahoo.co.uk
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Date: Monday, 21 July, 2008, 10:43 AM
> Here is one way of doing it by removing the element from the
> vector
> 
> > # exclude the 3rd element of the vector
> > sample((1:10)[-3], 10, TRUE)
>  [1]  4  5  7 10  2 10 10  7  7  1
> >
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Juliane Struve
> <juliane_struve at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Dear list,
> >
> >
> > I am trying to sample from a list of integers 1:10,
> but need to exclude one of them. The one to be excluded is
> a variable called "number" and can take values
> 1:10. The line below does not work, but shows what I am
> trying to do. Would somebody be able to help me with the
> syntax ?
> >
> > anglenumber=sample(1:10, exclude =
> "number",size=1,replace=TRUE)
> >
> > Thank you very much for a hint.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Juliane
> >
> >
> > Dr. Juliane Struve
> > Environmental Scientist
> > 10, Lynwood Crescent
> > Sunningdale SL5 0BL
> > 01344 620811
> >
> >
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