Suppose I have a matrix in R as follows:
ID Value
1 10
2 5
2 8
3 15
4 7
4 9
...
What I need is a random sample where every element is represented once and only once.
That means that ID 1 will be chosen, one of the two rows with ID 2, ID 3 will be chosen, one of the two rows with ID 4, etc...
There can be more than two duplicates.
I'm trying to figure out the most R-esque way to do this without subsetting and sampling the subsets?
Thanks!
tapply across the rownames and grab a sample of 1 in each ID group:
dat[tapply(rownames(dat),dat$ID,FUN=sample,1),]
# ID Value
#1 1 10
#3 2 8
#4 3 15
#6 4 9
If your data is truly a matrix and not a data.frame, you can work around this too, with:
dat[tapply(as.character(seq(nrow(dat))),dat$ID,FUN=sample,1),]
Don't be tempted to remove the as.character, as sample will give unintended results when there is only one value passed to it. E.g.
replicate(10, sample(4,1) )
#[1] 1 1 4 2 1 2 2 2 3 4
You can do that with dplyr like so:
library(dplyr)
df %>% group_by(ID) %>% sample_n(1)
The idea is reorder the rows randomly and then remove duplicates in that order.
df <- read.table(text="ID Value
1 10
2 5
2 8
3 15
4 7
4 9", header=TRUE)
df2 <- df[sample(nrow(df)), ]
df2[!duplicated(df2$ID), ]
