[R] breaking up n object into random groups

[Bert Gunter]

There are a million ways to do this, probably.

brks <- c(1,sort(sample(seq_len(99),3)),100)  ##  4 random groups

and then use brks as the breaks parameter in cut() with include.lowest = TRUE

?cut

-- Bert

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:09 AM, statfan <irene_vrbik at hotmail.com> wrote:
> say n = 100
> I want to partition this into 4 random groups wheren n1 + n2 + n3 + n4 = n
> and ni is the number of elements in group i.
>
> Thank you for you help
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