Hi,
The solution Matthias gave works perfectly when we are doing random sample of the dataframe without replacement. But it's not working with replacement. E.g. if I've the original dataframe of the form matrix(seq(1,100,100, 1) and want to select randomly 20 rows. With Matthias example, we can randomly sample that and the new matrix might look like this matrix("1 2 3 21 29 36 37 40 45 53 55 56 71 72 79 82 90 96 97 99", 20,1). But if I want a matrix of this form, (which can be possible with random sampling with replacement) matrix("1 2 3 21 21 21 37 40 45 53 53 56 71 79 79 82 90 96 97 99", 20,1). I'm not getting it. I tried the following code: data_ind = matrix(seq(1,nrow(actual_data), 1), nrow(bdframe_bt_subset_1), 1) data_sample = sample(nrow(data_ind), 100, TRUE) data_sample_matrix= matrix(data_sample, 100, 1) a = matrix(0, (nrow(data_ind)- nrow(data_sample_matrix)), 1) data_sample1 = rbind(data_sample, a) b = removeEmpty(target=actual_data, margin="rows", select = data_sample1); But this is not giving me the repeated row even though I can see in "data_sample_matrix" I've repeated position in the data. I also tried the follow "sample.dlm" in "utils" folder, but that also not giving me the answer I'm looking for. We can use the for-loop in this case using "data_sample_matrix" matrix. But want to avoid looping. Can anyone please help? Thank you! Arijit ________________________________ From: arijit chakraborty <ak...@hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 12:45 PM To: dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Randomly Selecting rows from a dataframe Thank you Matthias! You are most helpful! Thanks again! Arijit ________________________________ From: Matthias Boehm <mboe...@googlemail.com> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 2:20:48 AM To: dev@systemml.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Randomly Selecting rows from a dataframe you can take for example a 1% sample of rows via a permutation matrix (specifically selection matrix) as follows I = (rand(rows=nrow(X), cols=1, min=0, max=1) <= 0.01); P = removeEmpty(target=diag(I), margin="rows"); Xsample = P %*% X; or via removeEmpty and selection vector I = (rand(rows=nrow(X), cols=1, min=0, max=1) <= 0.01); Xsample = removeEmpty(target=X, margin="rows", select=I); Both should be compiled internally to very similar plans. Regards, Matthias On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:42 PM, arijit chakraborty <ak...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > Suppose I've a dataframe of 10 variables (X1-X10) and have 1000 rows. Now > I want to randomly select rows so that I've a subset of the dataset. > > > Can anyone please help me to solve this problem? > > > I tried the following code: > > > randSample = sample(nrow(dataframe), 200); > > > This gives me a column matrix with position of the row randomly selected. > But I could not able to solve how from this matrix I can subset data from > original dataframe. > > > Thank you! > > > Arijit >