# How to sample rows from a dataframe?

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**Created:** [January 18, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-sample-rows-from-a-dataframe/19782 "2019-01-18T13:39:49Z")\
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You can use `StatsBase.sample` to sample without replacement, and (optionally) keep the order:

```julia
using StatsBase, DataFrames
myDF = DataFrame(A = 1:10, B = 21:30)
myDF[sample(axes(myDF, 1), 3; replace = false, ordered = true), :]

```

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