On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 20:31, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > 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:
Sorry for not providing all the details. The 3 sets can be of any size (which will be specified by the user of the function) and cover all of r (ie, set1 + set2 + set3 == r) Thanks to everybody for all the solutions. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jijo.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'd love to go out with you, but there are important world issues that need worrying about." ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help