[R] eliminate t() and %*% using crossprod() and solve(A,b)

[Katharine Mullen]

you might want to see

Douglas Bates. Least squares calculations in R. R News,
4(1):17-20, June 2004.   http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/

he gives some rules of thumb, eg

use solve(A,b) not solve(A) %*% b
use crossprod(X) not t(X) %*% X
use crossprod(X,y) not t(X) y

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