[R] problem with matrix multiplication

Marlene Mueller marlene.mueller at gmx.de
Fri May 25 11:43:49 CEST 2001


Thanks for all solutions! The most elegant & efficient way
seems to me t(t(X)*Y) or t(Y*t(X)). Marlene

Marlene Mueller wrote:
> 
> Hi, I look for a solution to the following problem:
> 
> I have a (n x p) matrix X and a (p x 1) vector Y which
> are to be multiplied such the result is the (n x p) matrix
> 
>   Z = ( X[,1]*Y[1] .... X[,p]*Y[p] )
> 
> Up to now I found that  sweep(X,2,Y,"*")  is (almost) what
> I want, but only for p>1.
> 
> Is there another elegant way to do this by matrix
> operations -- including the case p=1?
> 
> --
> Marlene Mueller
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Marlene Mueller 
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