Re: [R] Computing generalized eigenvalues

2005-06-20 Thread Joshua Gilbert
On 6/17/05, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Joshua Gilbert wrote: I need to compute generalized eigenvalues. The eigen function in base doesn't do it and I can't find a package that does. They are very rarely used in statistics, so this is not surprising.

Re: [R] Computing generalized eigenvalues

2005-06-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Joshua Gilbert wrote: On 6/17/05, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Joshua Gilbert wrote: I need to compute generalized eigenvalues. The eigen function in base doesn't do it and I can't find a package that does. They are very rarely used

Re: [R] Computing generalized eigenvalues

2005-06-20 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Joshua Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I understand it, Lapack __can__ computer them (http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lawn41/node111.html) and R can use Lapack. If there is no function already, can I access Lapack from R and use those routines directly? Yes, you can: for real

Re: [R] Computing generalized eigenvalues

2005-06-20 Thread Douglas Bates
On 20 Jun 2005 17:41:13 +0200, Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I understand it, Lapack __can__ computer them (http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lawn41/node111.html) and R can use Lapack. If there is no function already, can I access

Re: [R] Computing generalized eigenvalues

2005-06-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Joshua Gilbert wrote: I need to compute generalized eigenvalues. The eigen function in base doesn't do it and I can't find a package that does. They are very rarely used in statistics, so this is not surprising. I presume you mean solving Ax = lambda B x: if B is

Re: [R] Computing generalized eigenvalues

2005-06-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Joshua Gilbert wrote: I need to compute generalized eigenvalues. The eigen function in base doesn't do it and I can't find a package that does. They are very rarely used in statistics, so this is not surprising. An aside,

[R] Computing generalized eigenvalues

2005-06-16 Thread Joshua Gilbert
I need to compute generalized eigenvalues. The eigen function in base doesn't do it and I can't find a package that does. As I understand it, Lapack __can__ computer them (http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lawn41/node111.html) and R can use Lapack. If there is no function already, can I access Lapack

Re: [R] Computing generalized eigenvalues

2005-06-16 Thread Huntsinger, Reid
Of Joshua Gilbert Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:45 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Computing generalized eigenvalues I need to compute generalized eigenvalues. The eigen function in base doesn't do it and I can't find a package that does. As I understand it, Lapack __can__ computer