[Rd] diag(-1) produces weird result

[William Revelle]

Dear list

A strange bug in the psych package is due to the behavior of the diag function:

It gives the expected values for 1, a vector (-1,1), but not for -1

Is this a known feature?


> diag(1)
     [,1]
[1,]    1
> diag(c(-1,1))
     [,1] [,2]
[1,]   -1    0
[2,]    0    1
> diag(-1)
Error in diag(-1) : invalid 'nrow' value (< 0)


Bill


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