[R] shuffling a vector

[Achim Zeileis]

On Monday 10 November 2003 17:28, Rajarshi Guha wrote:

> 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.

Sampling is a more statistical expression for what you are trying to 
da and I guess something like

R> letters[1:5]
[1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"
R> sample(letters[1:5])
[1] "a" "c" "d" "e" "b"

is what you want.
Z


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