[R] shuffling a vector

[Peter Dalgaard]

Rajarshi Guha <rxg218 at psu.edu> writes:

> Hi,
>   I'me trying to write  a function that will shuffle a vector. At the
> moment I'm baically making a vector of randomized indices and then
> making  a new vector from the original one using these random indices.
> 
> However, is there an alternative (more elegant) method to do this? I
> tried help.search('shuffle') but it does'nt return anything relevant.

sample(x,length(x))

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