[R] Randomly remove condition-selected rows from a matrix

[Charles C. Berry]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Guillaume Chapron wrote:

>
>> I believe this does what you want:
>> 
>> m[-sample(which(m[,1]<8 & m[,2]>12),2),]
>> 
>> Analysis:
>> 
>> Get a boolean vector of rows fitting criteria:
>>    m[,1]<8 & m[,2]>12
>> 
>> What are their indexes?
>>    which(...)
>> 
>> Choose two among those indexes:
>>     sample(...,2)
>
> Thanks, but this does not seem to always work.
>
> Supposing I sample only one row among the ones matching my criteria. Then 
> consider the case where there is just one row matching this criteria. Sure, 
> there is no need to sample, but the instruction would still be executed. Then 
> if this row index is 15, my instruction becomes which(15,1), and this can

I think you mean 'sample(15,1)', no?

>From ?sample:

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Details

If x has length 1, is numeric (in the sense of is.numeric) and x >= 1, 
sampling takes place from 1:x. Note that this convenience feature may lead 
to undesired behaviour when x is of varying length sample(x). See the 
resample() example below.

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So define and use 'resample'.


It often helps to reread help pages and rerun example()s, when things are 
not going your way!


HTH,

Chuck



> gives me any row from 1 to 15, which is not correct. I have to make a 
> condition in case there is only one row matching the criteria.
>
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