>>>>> "Wilhelm" == Wilhelm B Kloke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:37:13 +0100 (CET) writes:
Wilhelm> I just detected, that det() is not working on
Wilhelm> complex matrices any more, due to the fix to the
Wilhelm> bug reports noted above. I am not happy with this,
Wilhelm> as determinants are perfectly usable on complex
Wilhelm> matrices.
Btw, this is not a bug in the strict sense,
but a feature request; OTOH, I know that det() did work for
complex matrices.
Wilhelm> AFAIUI the bugs resulted from less than optimal
Wilhelm> behaviour of qr() in certain cases. IMHO this is
Wilhelm> due to the unhappy decision to use a default for
Wilhelm> parameter tol to decide whether the the
Wilhelm> decomposition is rank deficient.
Wilhelm> A better fix for (PR#1244) should be considered. I
Wilhelm> propose, using qr method with tol=0 as default, for
Wilhelm> det(). Even more preferrable, tol=0 can be made the
Wilhelm> default for qr(), forcing all applications to set a
Wilhelm> reasonable tol for their own.
I'm not entirely sure about the correctness of your
interpretation of bug fixes here.
Nevertheless, I agree that we should consider allowing
determinant() and hence det() to work for complex matrices --
and change determinant.matrix()'s default argument
`logarithm = TRUE' to
`logarithm = !is.complex(x)'
Then replace
if (is.complex(x))
stop("determinant not currently defined for complex matrices")
by something like (we had in R 1.6)
if (is.complex(x)) {
qx <- qr(x, tol = 0)
if (qx$rank < n)
return(0)
x <- prod(diag(qx$qr))
return(if (n%%2 == 1) x else -x)
}
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