sequential row selection in dataframe
Dear all; I'm wondering if there is any 'efficient' approach for selecting a sample of 'every nth rows' from a dataframe. For example, let's use the dataframe GAGurine in MASS library:
length(GAGurine[,1])
[1] 314 # select an 75% of the dataset, i.e. = 236 rows, every 2 rows starting from row 1
test<-GAGurine[seq(1,314,2),] length(test[,1])
[1] 157 # so, I still need another 79 rows, one way could be: test2<-GAGurine[-seq(1,314,2),]
length(test2[,1])
[1] 157
test3<-test2[seq(1,157,2),]
# and then final<-rbind(test2,test3)
length(final[,1])
[1] 236 Does anyone have a better idea to get the same results but without creating different datasets like test2 and test3? Thanks PM