[R] multiply two matrixes with the different dimension column by column

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Here are two ways:

1. Using inner from:

         http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/04/3709.html

    try:

         array(inner(t(X), Y, "*"), c(4, 21))

2. using model.matrix get all terms and interactions and eliminate the
non-interactions:

         model.matrix(~ X * Y - X - Y - 1)

On 10/13/06, Majid Iravani <majid.iravani at wsl.ch> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I would like to multiply two matrixes with the different dimension column
> by column. Let make an example:
> If I have two matrixes "X" and "Y"as follow:
>
> X<- matrix(1:12, nrow=4, ncol=3, dimnames=list(c("A","B","C","D"),
> c("stage1","stage2","stage3")))
> Y<- matrix(1:28, nrow=4, ncol=7, dimnames=list(c("A","B","C","D"),
> c("site1","site2","site3","site4","site5", "site6","site7")))
>
>  I would like to multiply first column of the "Y"matrix (site1) to the all
> of the columns in "X"matrix. Then, the product will be three new columns
> (for example:site1stage1, site1stage2 and site1stage3 or something like
> this) which I want to add to "Y"matrix. As my site (Y) dataset has too many
> columns, it's not easy to do it in Excel and I'm looking for a command in R
> to prepare a new data frame for more analysis. So I would greatly
> appreciate if anybody can help me in this case.
> Thanks in advance
> Majid
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