Select

Thank you David.

However, this will not work for me. If the group ID selected then all
of its observation should be included.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 4:51 PM David L Carlson <dcarlson at tamu.edu>
wrote:

First expand your data frame into a vector where G1 is repeated 25

times, G2 is repeated 15 times, etc. Then draw random samples of 40
from that vector:

grp <- rep(mydat$group, mydat$count)
grp.sam <- sample(grp, 40)
table(grp.sam)

grp.sam
G1 G2 G3 G4 G5
10  9  5 13  3

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David L Carlson
Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352


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Subject: [R] Select

Hi all,

I have a data frame  with tow variables  group and its size.
mydat<- read.table( text='group  count
G1 25
G2 15
G3 12
G4 31
G5 10' , header = TRUE, as.is = TRUE )

I want to select   group ID randomly (without replacement)  until 

the

sum of count reaches 40.
So, in  the first case, the data frame could be
   G4 31
   65 10

In other case, it could be
  G5 10
  G2 15
  G3 12

How do I put sum of count variable   is  a minimum of 40 restriction?

Than k you in advance






I want to select group  ids randomly until I reach the