[R] transform matrix

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Tue Nov 29 13:45:28 CET 2005


On 11/29/05 7:42 AM, "Robert" <samrobertsmith at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
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> Sean Davis <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
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> On 11/29/05 6:46 AM, "Robert" wrote:
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>> I run the following code and got a wrong message. Anyway to transform test1
>> to
>> a 6 by 6 matrix? many thanks!
>>> test1
>> 1 2 3 4 5 6
>> 1 0.0000000 0.7760856 2.022222 0.6148687 3.0227028 3.2104434
>> 2 0.7760856 0.0000000 1.690790 0.2424415 2.3636083 2.5334957
>> 3 2.0222216 1.6907899 0.000000 1.5939158 1.5126344 1.7304217
>> 4 0.6148687 0.2424415 1.593916 0.0000000 2.4265906 2.6085845
>> 5 3.0227028 2.3636083 1.512634 2.4265906 0.0000000 0.2184739
>> 6 3.2104434 2.5334957 1.730422 2.6085845 0.2184739 0.0000000
>>> tryD=matrix(data = test1, nrow = 6, ncol = 6)
>> Warning message:
>> Replacement length not a multiple of the elements to replace in matrix(...)
> 
> What is test1? Try:
> 
> tryD <- as.matrix(test1)
> 
> Does that do it? 
> 
> Sean
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> It works if I use tryD <- as.matrix(test1).
> But why tryD=matrix(data = test1, nrow = 6, ncol = 6) wrong?

What is test1?  What are the results of:

class(test1)
dim(test1)

Sean




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