Dear R-help faithful, I am trying to build a program which will take repeated samples (w/o 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<-1:10 sample(pop, 2) = lets say, (3, 7) ## This is where I would like values (3, 7) to be removed from the population vector, giving a new "current" population vector: "new" pop = [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10] and has length 8 instead of 10. At first I tried to run a loop and comparison of (sample.pop == pop) and IF a FALSE was found the loop would store the [ith] value of sample.pop in a new vector called pop.current. Then, due to my beginning programming skills, I kind of got stuck linking pop.current to the population which is to be sampled from... I know that in PHP there is a function called unset() which removes values from an array. Does R have an equivalent function? Thanks in advance. Joe ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html