[Rd] diag() has a bug (PR#13702)

[Peter Dalgaard]

Benilton Carvalho wrote:
> in that case, wouldn't
> 
> diag(diag(foo))
> 
> suffice?

Yes (beware the length 1 case, though).

However, don't delete the bug report. That error message is just wrong:

     if (is.array(x) && length(dim(x)) != 1L)
         stop("first argument is array, but not matrix.")


> 
> b
> 
> On May 14, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Michael Spiegel wrote:
> 
>> The intent of diag(foo, 2, 2) was to return a matrix that is a 2 x 2 
>> matrix which contains only the diagonal entries of the matrix foo.  I 
>> can't do diag(foo) because this returns a vector.  I could reach my 
>> goal with matrix(diag(foo), nrow = nrow(foo), ncol = ncol(foo)).  If 
>> this is not a reasonable thing for diag(<matrix>, <numeric>, 
>> <numeric>) to return, then at the very least the error message should 
>> be changed, as the first argument is in fact a matrix.
>>
>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Benilton Carvalho 
>> <bcarvalh at jhsph.edu> wrote:
>> My understanding is that providing nrow and ncol, you want to create a 
>> diagonal matrix with those dimensions.
>>
>> diag(pi, 6, 6)
>>
>> and that by
>>
>> diag(foo, 2, 2)
>>
>> you really meant
>>
>> diag(foo)[2]
>>
>> Apologies if I misunderstood.
>>
>> b
>>
>> On May 14, 2009, at 10:45 AM, michael.m.spiegel at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Full_Name: Michael Spiegel
>> Version: 2.9.0
>> OS: linux
>> Submission from: (NULL) (204.111.252.142)
>>
>>
>> The diag() function appears to reject the first argument when it is a 
>> matrix,
>> and nrow and ncol arguments are also provided.
>>
>> foo <- matrix(c(1:4),2,2)
>> foo
>>    [,1] [,2]
>> [1,]    1    3
>> [2,]    2    4
>> diag(foo)
>> [1] 1 4
>> diag(foo, 2, 2)
>> Error in diag(foo, 2, 2) : first argument is array, but not matrix.
>> is.matrix(foo)
>> [1] TRUE
>>
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