after dat.cor use: Rmat[lower.tri(Rmat)] <- dat.cor Rmat <- t(Rmat) Rmat[lower.tri(Rmat)] <- dat.cor
b On Jul 27, 2007, at 11:28 PM, Gregory Gentlemen wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a seemingly simple task which I have not been able to solve > today. I want to construct a symmetric matrix of arbtriray size w/o > using loops. The following I thought would do it: > > p <- 6 > Rmat <- diag(p) > dat.cor <- rnorm(p*(p-1)/2) > Rmat[outer(1:p, 1:p, "<")] <- Rmat[outer(1:p, 1:p, ">")] <- dat.cor > > However, the problem is that the matrix is filled by column and so > the resulting matrix is not symmetric. > > I'd be grateful for any adive and/or solutions. > > Gregory > > > > > --------------------------------- > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
