How do I filter elements from a sequence based on indexes

Question

I have a sequence s and a list of indexes into this sequence indexes. How do I retain only the items given via the indexes?

Simple example:

Answer 1

make a list of vectors containing the items combined with the indexes,

(def with-indexes (map #(vector %1 %2 ) ['a 'b 'c 'd 'e 'f] (range)))
#'clojure.core/with-indexes
 with-indexes
([a 0] [b 1] [c 2] [d 3] [e 4] [f 5])

filter this list

lojure.core=> (def filtered (filter #(#{1 3 5 7} (second % )) with-indexes))
#'clojure.core/filtered
clojure.core=> filtered
([b 1] [d 3] [f 5])

then remove the indexes.

clojure.core=> (map first filtered)                                          
(b d f)

then we thread it together with the "thread last" macro

(defn filter-by-index [coll idxs] 
    (->> coll
        (map #(vector %1 %2)(range)) 
        (filter #(idxs (first %)))
        (map second)))
clojure.core=> (filter-by-index ['a 'b 'c 'd 'e 'f 'g] #{2 3 1 6}) 
(b c d g)

The moral of the story is, break it into small independent parts, test them, then compose them into a working function.