\name{maffy.subset}
\alias{maffy.subset}
\title{Select Subset}
\description{Select a subset of rows with small rank-range over columns.}
\usage{
maffy.subset(data,subset.size=5000,maxit=100,
             subset.delta=max(round(subset.size/100),25),verbose=FALSE)}
\arguments{
  \item{data}{a matrix}
  \item{subset.size}{desired size of subset}
  \item{maxit}{maximum number of iterations}
  \item{subset.delta}{maximum deviation from subset.size}
  \item{verbose}{logical value.}
}
\details{
Please refer to references.
}
\value{ 
  A list with component \code{subset}, the indexes for subset.
}
\references{Astrand, M. (2001) \url{http://www.math.chalmers.se/~magnusaa/maffy/}}
\author{Magnus Astrand}
\seealso{ \code{\link{maffy.normalize}}}
\examples{
if (require(affydata)) {
  #data(Dilution)
  #x <- log2(pm(Dilution)[,1:3])
  #Index <- maffy.subset(x,subset.size=100)$subset
  #mva.pairs(x[Index,])
}
}
\keyword{internal}