[R] using cut on matrices

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Tamas Papp <tpapp at axelero.hu> writes:

> Dear list,
> 
> I'd like to use the function cut() on matrices, ie that when I apply
> it to a matrix, it would return a matrix of the same dimensions
> instead of a vector.
> 
> I wonder if there is a better (more elegant) solution than
> 
> matrix(cut(a, ...), ncol=ncol(a), nrow=nrow(a))
> 
> because I would like to use cut on both vectors and matrices and avoid
> testing whether a is a matrix.

Will this not work?:

ac <- cut(a)
dim(ac) <- dim(a)

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