How to split data into training/testing sets using sample function

Question

I\'ve just started using R and I\'m not sure how to incorporate my dataset with the following sample code:

sample(x, size, replace = FALSE, prob = NULL)
         


        

Answer 1

Use base R. Function runif generates uniformly distributed values from 0 to 1.By varying cutoff value (train.size in example below), you will always have approximately the same percentage of random records below the cutoff value.

data(mtcars)
set.seed(123)

#desired proportion of records in training set
train.size<-.7
#true/false vector of values above/below the cutoff above
train.ind<-runif(nrow(mtcars))