[R] OT: algorithm for generating all possible combinations withreplacement

Ales Ziberna aleszib at gmail.com
Fri Nov 25 08:57:17 CET 2005


Does this do what you want?
n<-10
k<-5
expand.grid(rep(list(1:n),k))

However be carful, even this small example prouces matrix with100000 rows.

Best,
Ales Ziberna
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Subject: [R] OT: algorithm for generating all possible combinations 
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> Dear all,
>
> I have n objects and I want to select k of these with replacement. Do you 
> know
> of code which would generate all the possible arrangements? Note that this 
> is
> different from the selection of k of n objects without replacement and 
> wanting
> to generate all the possible permutations.
>
> Any suggestions? Existing C code would be fantastic btw, but I would be 
> happy
> with an algorithm.
>
> Best wishes!
>
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