[R] Extracting/setting elements from/in a matrix/array

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Laurent Gautier <laurent at genome.cbs.dtu.dk> writes:

> Dear all,
> 
> 
> I had to extracts/set elements from/in a matrix. Let say I have two
> vectors dim1 and dim2 of indices in the respective two dimensions of a
> matrix: I want to extract all the corresponding elements. I the case of a
> nxn matrix, dim1 <- 1:n and dim2 <- 1:n would extract the diagonal.
> 
> I know one way would be to use the functions 'row' and 'col', but the
> matrixes I have are can be rather large. This is probably a detail but
> I was looking for something that would avoid be bit more memory
> friendly... I have made functions for that purpose but I suspect somebody
> already did something (which would be in R, but I could not find it...).
> For the sake of avoiding duplication of similar things (hence making code 
> more readable), I would be happy to replace it in my code.
> 
> Does anybody knows if such things already exists ?

It does:  A[cbind(dim1,dim2)]

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