Here you can find the source of extractRandomVector(Collection
public static <K> Vector<K> extractRandomVector(Collection<K> c, int newSize)
//package com.java2s; /*/*from w w w .j ava 2 s . c om*/ * WANDORA * Knowledge Extraction, Management, and Publishing Application * http://wandora.org * * Copyright (C) 2004-2016 Wandora Team * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. * * * * * GenericVelocityHelper.java * * Created on 17. joulukuuta 2004, 10:54 */ import java.util.*; public class Main { public static <K> Vector<K> extractRandomVector(Collection<K> c, int newSize) { Vector cropped = new Vector(); if (c == null || c.size() < 1 || newSize < 1) return cropped; int s = c.size(); int randomStep = 0; Iterator<K> iter = c.iterator(); for (int i = 0; i < newSize; i++) { randomStep = (int) Math.floor(Math.random() * (s / newSize)) - 1; while (iter.hasNext() && randomStep-- > 0) iter.next(); if (iter.hasNext()) cropped.add(iter.next()); } return cropped; } }