On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 17:03 -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 10/3/2006 4:59 PM, roger bos wrote:
> > Dear useRs,
> >
> > Trying to replace the diagonal of a matrix is not working for me. I
> > want a matrix with .6 on the diag and .4 elsewhere. The following
> > code looks like it should work--when I lookk at mps and idx they look
> > how I want them too--but it only replaces the first element, not each
> > element on the diagonal.
> >
> > mps <- matrix(rep(.4, 3*3), nrow=n, byrow=TRUE)
> > idx <- diag(3)
> > mps
> > idx
> > mps[idx] <- rep(.6,3)
> >
> > I also tried something along the lines of diag(mps=.6, ...) but it
> > didn't know what mps was.
>
> Matrix indexing can use a two column matrix, giving row and column
> numbers. So you could get what you want by
>
> mps[cbind(1:n,1:n)] <- 0.6
What's wrong with:
> mps <- matrix(rep(.4, 3*3), nrow = 3, byrow=TRUE)
> mps
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 0.4 0.4 0.4
[2,] 0.4 0.4 0.4
[3,] 0.4 0.4 0.4
> diag(mps) <- 0.6
> mps
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 0.6 0.4 0.4
[2,] 0.4 0.6 0.4
[3,] 0.4 0.4 0.6
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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