On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:28, 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.
>
> Thanks,
You might want to look at the permute() function in the 'gregmisc'
package.
Example:
> x <- 1:10
> permute(x)
[1] 1 3 2 6 5 7 10 8 9 4
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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