Let S be your input matrix and M your output.
name <- unique(c(S[,1],S[,2]))
M <- matrix(1, nr=length(name), nc=length(name), dimnames=list(name, name))
apply(S, 1, function(r) M[r[1],r[2]] <<- M[r[2],r[1]] <<- as.numeric(r[3]))
You might want to put it into a function.....
Gabor
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:24:32AM -0500, Lex Flagel wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am using a program that generates similarity matrices in the following
> non-redundant pairwise format.
>
> a b 0.4
> a c 0.5
> a d 0.3
> b c 0.9
> b d 0.6
> c d 0.2
>
> matrix(c('a','a','a','b','b','c','b','c','d','c','d','d',.4,.5,.3,.9,.6,.2),byrow=F,nrow=6)
>
> I would like to convert this to a full similarity matrix of the following
> format.
>
> a b c d
> a 1 .4 .5 .3
> b .4 1 .9 .6
> c .5 .9 1 .2
> d .3 .6 .2 1
>
> Additionally, I need to be able to apply this conversion to many data sets
> with a different dimensions, so a generalized approach would be preferred.
>
> Thanks for any advice, I'm stuck!
> Lex
>
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