[R] 'subscript out of bounds' in matrices

[Jan_Svatos@eurotel.cz]

Hi,

the "subscript out of bounds" error nas nothing to do with memory.
It reads exactly what it says: that subscript (index) is out of given
bounds
of a vector/matrix/general array...

Do you still have p as a _matrix_  2by1?, not as a _vector_ of length 2?
Moreover, if p is 2by1 matrix,

diagp<-diag(c(p[1,1],p[2,1])) is 2by2, not 4by4.

Anyway, store p using

as.matrix

command (or try ?as.matrix for help)

Jan

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Send: 11/12/01 1:03:53 PM
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Subject: [R] 'subscript out of bounds' in matrices

Dear list

Having read through all the archives of the mailing lists, I've had no
luck finding the answer to my problem.

I am running a for(i in 1:n) loop and am creating a matrix, p, for each
of the n observations. This matrix p is a 2x1 matrix. I am then doing
the following:

diagp<-diag(c(p[1,1],p[2,1]))

to create a matrix with the elements of P on the diagonal (i.e. a 4x4
matrix).

This works fine when I have n=60, however when I increase the size of
the data set to n=100, I get the error message:

Error in diag(c(p[1, 1], p[2, 1])) : subscript out of bounds

I put this down to a problem with memory at first so increased the
memory in my PC from 128Mb to 256Mb yet it made no difference and the
error still occurred. I am eventually going to need to run this command
for n=8000.

Could anybody suggest what I can do to solve this problem? Do I need to
store my matrix as another type of variable?

Thanks in advance for any help
Laura
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