[R] weird behaviour of eigen() (actual example)

[Karim Elsawy]

Hi Thomas, 
the matrix V , which produced the anomelous order,is attached as a text
file,
V<-matrix(scan("V.dat"),ncol=40,byrow=T)
eigen(V)$values

best regards
karim

Martin Maechler wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Karim" == Karim Elsawy <elsawy at ysbl.york.ac.uk>
> >>>>>     on Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:34:07 +0000 writes:
> 
>     Karim> Hi Thomas, the matrix V , which produced the
>     Karim> anomelous order,is attached as an R object,
> 
> and it wasn't :
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