[R] eigenvectors order

[John Fox]

Dear Antonio,

At 10:07 AM 11/5/2002 +0100, YERUPAJA01 wrote:

>How the eigenvectors output by the eigen() function are ordered. The
>first column corresponds to the largest eigenvalue? or is the last
>column as in Octave?

As is clear from the output of eigen (and the help page), the eigenvalues 
are in descending order; the eigenvectors correspond to the eigenvalues -- 
i.e., the first column corresponds to the largest eigenvalue.

I hope that this helps,
  John
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