There are a million ways to do this, probably. brks <- c(1,sort(sample(seq_len(99),3)),100) ## 4 random groups
and then use brks as the breaks parameter in cut() with include.lowest = TRUE ?cut -- Bert On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:09 AM, statfan <irene_vr...@hotmail.com> wrote: > say n = 100 > I want to partition this into 4 random groups wheren n1 + n2 + n3 + n4 = n > and ni is the number of elements in group i. > > Thank you for you help > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/breaking-up-n-object-into-random-groups-tp4147476p4147476.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.