[R] Randomly shuffle an array multiple times

[John Haart]

Dear List,

I have a table i have read into R:

Name	Yes/No

John	0
Frank	1
Ann		0
James	1
Alex	1

etc  - 800 different times.

What i want to do is shuffle yes/no and randomly re-assign them to the name.

I have used sample() and permute(), however there is no way to do this 1000 times. Furthermore, i want to copy the data into a excel spreadsheet in the same order as the data was input so i can build up a distribution of the statistic for each name. When i use shuffle the date gets returned like this -

[1] 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
 [34] 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
 [67] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1
[100] 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
[133] 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
[166] 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1
[199] 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
[232] 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
[265] 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1
[298] 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
[331] 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1

etc

Rather than like this, is there a way to change the output?

John	0
Frank	1
Ann		0
James	1
Alex	1

Can anyone suggest a script that would achieve this?

Thanks

Peter