[R] Sampling of non-overlapping intervals of variable length

[Hadassa Brunschwig]

Hi,

I hope I am not repeating a question which has been posed already.
I am trying to do the following in the most efficient way:
I would like to sample from a finite (large) set of integers n non-overlapping
intervals, where each interval i has a different, set length L_i
(which is the number
of integers in the interval).
I had the idea to sample recursively on a vector with the already
chosen intervals
discarded but that seems to be too complicated.
Any suggestions on that?

Thanks a lot.

Hadassa


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Hadassa Brunschwig
PhD Student
Department of Statistics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
http://www.stat.huji.ac.il