[R] Select

[Val]

Thank you David.

However, this will not work for me. If the group ID selected then all
of its observation should be included.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 4:51 PM David L Carlson <dcarlson using tamu.edu> wrote:
>
> First expand your data frame into a vector where G1 is repeated 25 times, G2 is repeated 15 times, etc. Then draw random samples of 40 from that vector:
>
> > grp <- rep(mydat$group, mydat$count)
> > grp.sam <- sample(grp, 40)
> > table(grp.sam)
> grp.sam
> G1 G2 G3 G4 G5
> 10  9  5 13  3
>
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> David L Carlson
> Department of Anthropology
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77843-4352
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> Hi all,
>
> I have a data frame  with tow variables  group and its size.
> mydat<- read.table( text='group  count
> G1 25
> G2 15
> G3 12
> G4 31
> G5 10' , header = TRUE, as.is = TRUE )
>
> I want to select   group ID randomly (without replacement)  until  the
> sum of count reaches 40.
> So, in  the first case, the data frame could be
>    G4 31
>    65 10
>
> In other case, it could be
>   G5 10
>   G2 15
>   G3 12
>
> How do I put sum of count variable   is  a minimum of 40 restriction?
>
> Than k you in advance
>
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> I want to select group  ids randomly until I reach the
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