[R] Rank of a matrix?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Manuel Castejón Limas <manuel.castejon at dim.unirioja.es> writes:

> Hello everyone,
> this is a very simple question but I could  not find the answer. :-(
>
> Is there any function in R for calculating the rank of a matrix?
> (In the sense of the dimension of the vectorial space that spans)

It's a byproduct of chol() and qr(), but beware that it is numerically
ill-defined due to round-off. Notice the tol= argument to qr().

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