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...ents at each taxonomic level but in a such way that at the end I will not end up with orphaned nodes i.e. species without classes. I have been trying to use 'sample' like following: tcla<-sample(tclass,10,replace=T) #I pick 10 random elements, but I want it to be a random number; torder1<-torder[tclass==tcla] # I match list of orders with those that belong to classes defined earlier; tord<-sample(torder1, 10,replace=T) # pick 10 orders from classes that are already chosen; etc all the way down to species level. The problem with this approach is that I may obtain branche...