btw, i really have no clue how r <= %sysevalf(&rto) works.....
as for my data sets, i used rto=0.5 since i need only half of the data set. and it works for one data set, which originally has 40 obs, while it doesnt work for the 2nd data set, which originally has 36 obs (8 groups within each group, there are *_A, *_B, *_C, *_D four obs)-----and it sampled only 12 obs for me......
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