Hello R users My goal is to use R to write functions for and automate a series of analyses i would like to do on a large data set. The calculations are not very difficult in themselves, however they will be very time consuming (Plus I think R will be extremely useful and this is another excuse to learn how to program).
I have a vector of 20 values x <- c(20,18, 45, 16, 47, 47, 15, 26, 14,14,12,16,35,27,18,94,16,26,26,30) 1. I want to select random pairs from this data set but do it without replacement exhaustively I know i can select random pairs without replacement using sample(N,n,replace=F) However i am wondering if there is any way to get 10 random pairs from this data set without repeating any of the data points that is to say if i got a (20, 94) for one pair, i would like to get 9 other pairs from the data without again getting 20 or 94? 2. The second thing i would like to do is be able to select all possible pairs of numbers and calculate each pairs variance. I think i will need a for loop here but I am unsure of how to do the programing. I am reading two books on S and s-plus now and hope they are some help. I thought i would also post on this list and get some expert advice for the more experienced R users Thank-you very much Stephen Cole Marine Ecology Lab Saint Francis Xavier University [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.