[R] Newbie hung up with matrices

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 16 May 2003 rwatkins at cornerstonelp.com wrote:

> 	I just started learning R.  I'm trying to use the Help and the downloadable
> manuals.  I am stuck on trying to multiply matrices.  Can anyone please
> supply a couple of lines of code that I can plug into a fresh console to see
> how  a double precision (1x3) matrix is multiplied by a double precision
> (3x3) matrix?  I keep getting an error message,"Error in x%*%A: requires
> numeric matrix/vector arguments".
> 
> 	I have some VBA and VB experience (thus a little Object Oriented
> programming experience), am I right in beliving that I am not "dimensioning"
> correctly?  I have been trying the following example:
> 		A<-matrix
> 		A<-read.csv("test33.csv"), where the data is
> 				A,B,C
> 				1,4,7
> 				2,5,8
> 				3,6,9

You've forgotten header=TRUE, if you don't want A,B,C to be part of your 
matrix.  R comes with a Data Import/Export Manual: please consult it.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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