[R] Introduction of NA:s

[John Fox]

Dear Patrik,

At 12:01 PM 10/2/2002 +0200, Patrik Waldmann wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I wonder if someone could help me with the following: I have generated 10 
>000 values from rnorm and now I want to randomly replace 500 of those with 
>NA. The problem is that values indexed between 6-10,16-20,26-30.... only 
>should be considered for replacement. Any suggestions?

There's probably a cleverer way of doing it, but the following should work:

         nums <- 1:10000
         data <- rnorm(10000)
         data[sample(nums[is.element(nums - 10*floor(nums/10), c(0,6:9))], 
500)] <- NA

I hope that this helps,
  John

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