On 17 Nov 2003 20:07:08 -0500, you wrote:
>Sorry about that. I wanted to select 3 disjoint sets from a supplied >vector of numbers. My initial example had > >r <- 1:300 > >but there is no guarantee that r will contain a consecutive sequence of >numbers. It's still not clear whether the 3 sets should be of fixed size or random size, and whether they should cover all of r or just part of it. Thomas' solution gave you a random partition. If you just want 3 non-overlapping samples, each of size n, then do something like: indices <- sample(1:length(r), size=3*n) sample1 <- r[indices[1:n]] sample2 <- r[indices[(n+1):(2*n)]] sample3 <- r[indices[(2*n+1):(3*n)]] Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
