selecting every nth item in the data

From:           	"Stephen Choularton" <mail at bymouth.com>
To:             	"R Help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date sent:      	Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:48:42 +1000
Subject:        	[R] selecting every nth item in the data

I want to make a glm and then use predict.  I have a fairly small
sample (4000 cases) and I want to train on 90% and test on 10% but I
want to do it in slices so I test on every 10th case and train on the
others.  Is there some simple way to get these elements?

As glm accept subet you probably can use

test<-seq(1,4000,n)

glm(...., subset = test)

to select only n'th item or

glm(...., subset = -test)

to select all but n'th items.

or you can split the data freme by

mydf[test,] or mydf[-test,]

HTH
Petr

Stephen

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21/10/2005


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