[R] package sampling, function strata

[Thomas Lumley]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Elena Guijarro
<elena.guijarro at vi.ieo.es> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have to select 122 stratified random samples from a population of
>  >3900 cells. I have 41 strata and I  have to draw a different number of
> samples from them(between 2 and 8).
>
> I have tried to apply the funtion strata following the instruction in
> the manual:
>
> strata(dataframe, stratanames=NULL, size, method=c("srswor"),
> pik,description=TRUE)
>
> but I get the error message
>
> Error in data.frame((1:nrow(data))[srswor(size, nrow(data)) == 1], rep(size/nrow(data),  :
>   arguments imply differing number of rows: 3, 122
>
> My stratanames and size vectors have the same length, 41 (the number of strata), and 122 is the number of samples I need. The size vector is sorted in the order the strata have in the dataframe (dim 3960 8).

You specified stratanames=NULL, which is not documented to work, and
doesn't seem to work on examples I tried.

> names(dataframe)
> [1] "lond"        "latd"        "stratanames" "cell"        "lat"         "lon"         "div"         "ID_unit"

Try specifying stratanames="stratanames", which is what the
documentation and examples seem to imply.


   -thomas


-- 
Thomas Lumley
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Auckland