> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of MarcioRibeiro > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:56 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Sample Function > > > Hi listers, > Suppose I have a dataset with n=10 observations and I want to sample with > replacement. > My new sample is of size m=9. > So, I am using the following code... > newsample<-dataset[sample(m,replace=T),] > The problem is that generates the new sample and the last observation of my > data set is never included. > I can sample the identification like this code... > newsample<-sample(1:n,m,replace=TRUE) > But, after this code I am obtaining a statistic and I have only the > identification of the data observed. > Is there a way that I can sample the data observed to calculate a statistic > of it. > Thanks in advance, > Marcio
Try newsample<-dataset[sample(1:10,m,replace=TRUE),] Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data Analysis Division Olympia, WA 98504-5204 ______________________________________________ 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.