Dear All, I am trying to build a program which will take repeated samples without replacement from a population of values. The interesting catch is that I would like the sample values to be removed from the population, after each sample is taken.
For example: pop<-c(1,5,14,7,9,12,18,19,65,54) sample(pop, 2) = lets say, (5,54) ## This is where I would like values (5, 54) to be removed from the population vector, giving a new "current" population vector: "new" pop = [1,14,7,9,12,18,19,65] and has length 8 instead of 10. In the cases when the size of pop and deriven sample of it is enough large using the following command is not helpful. newpop<-pop[-c(2,10)] One could simplify my question in this way: how we can exclude a sub vector values from a super vector value (i.e sub vecor values are subset of super vector values). Thanks in advance. Hamid [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.