RsparseMatrix-class {Matrix} R Documentation

## Class "RsparseMatrix" of Sparse Matrices in Row-compressed Form

### Description

The "RsparseMatrix" class is the virtual class of all sparse matrices coded in sorted compressed row-oriented form. Since it is a virtual class, no objects may be created from it. See showClass("RsparseMatrix") for its subclasses.

### Slots

j:

Object of class "integer" of length nnzero (number of non-zero elements). These are the row numbers for each non-zero element in the matrix.

p:

Object of class "integer" of pointers, one for each row, to the initial (zero-based) index of elements in the row.

Dim, Dimnames:

inherited from the superclass, see sparseMatrix.

### Extends

Class "sparseMatrix", directly. Class "Matrix", by class "sparseMatrix".

### Methods

Originally, few methods were defined on purpose, as we rather use the CsparseMatrix in Matrix. Then, more methods were added but beware that these typically do not return "RsparseMatrix" results, but rather Csparse* or Tsparse* ones; e.g., R[i, j] <- v for an "RsparseMatrix" R works, but after the assignment, R is a (triplet) "TsparseMatrix".

t

signature(x = "RsparseMatrix"): ...

coerce

signature(from = "RsparseMatrix", to = "CsparseMatrix"): ...

coerce

signature(from = "RsparseMatrix", to = "TsparseMatrix"): ...

### See Also

its superclass, sparseMatrix, and, e.g., class dgRMatrix for the links to other classes.

### Examples

showClass("RsparseMatrix")


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