[Rd] Request: kronecker to get a sep= argument

Charles C. Berry cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu
Fri Nov 26 08:19:44 CET 2010


On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Charles C. Berry wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Michael Friendly wrote:
>
>>  kronecker, with make.dimnames=TRUE uses a hardwired sep=":" in the line
>>
>>             tmp <- outer(dnx[[i]], dny[[i]], FUN = "paste", sep = ":")
>>
>>  For an application in which dimnames arise from an n-way array, where
>>  different dimensions have
>>  different roles, and I would like to be able to use kronecker in the form
>>
>>  kronecker(A, B, make.dimnames=TRUE, sep='/')
>>
>>  All this requires is to change the following two lines:
>>
>>  kronecker <- function (X, Y, FUN = "*", make.dimnames = FALSE, sep=":"
>>  ...)
>>  {
>>   ...
>>             tmp <- outer(dnx[[i]], dny[[i]], FUN = "paste", sep = sep)
>> }
>> 
>>
>>  Otherwise, I have to reproduce the logic inside kronecker() in my
>>  application function.
>
> Or add one line of code:
>
> res <- kronecker(m1,m3,make.dimnames=T)
> dimnames(res) <-
> 	 lapply( dimnames(res), sub, pattern=":", replacement="/" )
>
> HTH,
>
> Chuck
>
> p.s. your suggestion could break code that others may have written like
>
> 	kronecker( letters[1:3], diag(LETTERS[1:2]), paste, sep='*' )

make that

 	kronecker( letters[1:3], diag(LETTERS[1:2]), paste )


>
>
>>
>>  -Michael
>>
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>
> Charles C. Berry                            Dept of Family/Preventive 
> Medicine
> cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu			    UC San Diego
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Charles C. Berry                            Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine
cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu			    UC San Diego
http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/  La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901



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